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Public services may be cut to get UK on 'war footing'

PM did not rule out slashing budgets as he insisted plan to boost defence funding would not impact ability to cut tax

Full story by me Jane Merrick Hugo Gye Leo Cendrowicz

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Former Labour minister and crossbench peer Frank Field has died aged 81, his family has announced - PA Media

The i: Tories unveil UK’s biggest hike to military spending for a generation #TomorrowsPapersToday

Labour’s Steve Reed tells me Labour would want to match the Conservative commitment to 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030

“Just to be crystal clear, you would like Labour to commit to saying that you'll spend 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030?”

“That's right”

Full interview 7pm

Exc: Rwanda flights will only carry ‘couple of dozen’ migrants each, Cleverly indicates to colleagues inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

This is a big spending commitment (an extra 0.5% of GDP will be approx £17bn by 2030).

Notably, there's no sign that overall spending plans have been topped up. So it's implicitly coming from other areas.

Unprotected public services now face cuts of around 4% p.a. after 2025.

We just can't help hyping everything. Sunak: 'Today is a turning point for European security'. UK going from 2.2% of GDP to 2.5% is terrific, but 'turning point for European security' is 🙄 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

From Chloe Chaplain who's with Sunak in Poland - PM says: 'As I said, I think it was in the first week of January, my working assumption is an election in the second half of the year.'

Second half of the year starts pretty soon...

I spoke with Rishi Sunak, who informed me that the UK has allocated the largest defence support package for Ukraine to date, worth half a billion pounds.

Storm Shadow and other missiles, hundreds of armored vehicles and watercraft, ammunition—all of this is needed on the

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🚨 EXC: Govt is preparing to announce national security adviser Tim Barrow is next UK ambo to US, sparking Labour anger 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Labour officials warn they cd override appointment, set to begin Dec/Jan, & install their own candidate if Starmer enters No 10

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Govt has offered a concession to Lord (Des) Browne on Rwanda bill. Browne wants Afghan veterans who have served UK armed forces to be exempt. Lord Sharpe for govt: MoD will reassess all eligibility decisions. Any veteran who has a positive decision will not be removed to Rwanda

Rebels pressure PM to deliver 'best case scenario' of 2,000 deportees in six months as sources close to Border Force say it is possible with weekly flights of 75 migrants with 2-3 escorts
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Savanta announce polling error which would mean Andy Street narrowly loses - where previously their poll had Tories narrowly holding on 👇

i‘s Hugo Gye asks Prime Minister Rishi Sunak how many people he expects will have been deported to Rwanda on flights by the autumn.

Sunak claims the first flight will leave in July

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