https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/arms-spending-plan-threat-our-future
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Malloy Aeronautics in Berkshire following the publication of the long-delayed defence investment plan (Dip), June 30, 2026KEIR STARMER’S parting gift to the country he has so misgoverned is an enormous and unaffordable arms build-up which helps set Britain on the road to war.
The Defence Investment Plan unveiled today specifically cuts energy and transport investment to pay for a fleet of new military drones. New Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis appears to have squeezed new money out of the Treasury where his predecessor John Healey failed.
The vast sums now allocated to the military are never going to be enough for some, of course — the unrepentant Blairite hawks in the Labour Party, as well as the right-wing media and the arms corporations.
Their ideal is a small country attached to a huger military. Starmer’s plan takes a step in that direction.
That he announced it in the twilight days of his premiership is clearly designed to tie the hands of his heir apparent, Andy Burnham.
Not that Burnham has set his face against the frenzied militarisation of the economy. His position remains somewhat enigmatic, on this as on much else.
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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/arms-spending-plan-threat-our-future
