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National Security ‘Can’t Come at the Expense of Social Security’ – Andy Burnham
Burnham said cutting housing benefit would create homelessness as he defended Labour’s defence spending plans and rejected Tory proposals to raise military funding.
- Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch challenged Prime Minister Andy Burnham during Prime Minister's Questions on whether the Government would reach 3% of GDP for defense funding by 2030, citing "serious threats to national security that cannot wait."
- The Conservatives proposed funding defense last week by cutting £4 billion from housing benefits and £3.1 billion through reimposing the two-child benefit cap, a plan Burnham criticized for potentially creating mass homelessness.
- Defending the current trajectory, Burnham noted spending was 2.3% of GDP when the government she was in left office and is set to reach 2.7% in the next year.
- Mrs Badenoch also accused the Government of prioritizing a £35 billion payment to Mauritius for sovereignty over the Chagos Islands over troop training funding.
- The Prime Minister insisted "national security can't come at the expense of social security," confirming the Government will set out a path to reach 3.5% of GDP spent on defense by 2035 at the spending review.
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National security ‘can’t come at the expense of social security’ – Andy Burnham
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch highlighted ‘serious threats to national security that cannot wait’.
·London, United Kingdom
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