Rishi Sunak gathered hugely favourable front page headlines today for his pledge to increase defence spending by £75 billion while paying for it by sacking civil servants.
The only problem is the numbers don't actually add up
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/04/24/rishi-sunak-defence-spending-gdp-nato-cooked-the-books/
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2024-04-24 13:36:43
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