National security can’t come at expense of social security, Burnham tells PMQs
Burnham said defence spending will rise without cutting housing benefit, rejecting Tory plans that would raise £4 billion through welfare savings.
- On Tuesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham faced Tory leader Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister's Questions, where they clashed over defence spending and welfare cuts.
- The Tories proposed funding defence increases by cutting £4bn from housing benefit, a plan Prime Minister Burnham rejected, warning it would create mass homelessness.
- Mrs Badenoch accused the government of prioritizing £35 billion for the Chagos Islands over troop training, while Burnham countered that defence spending was 2.3% of GDP under the previous Conservative government.
- While the government committed to reaching 3.5% of GDP by 2035, Badenoch labeled Burnham "continuity Keir" and criticized the failure to cut the £408.6bn welfare bill.
- Burnham insisted his strategy involves reducing the welfare bill by tackling the nearly one million young people not in education, employment or training, known as Neets.
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Burnham says defence uplift 'can't come at expense’ of welfare
Andy Burnham has said an uplift in defence spending will not come “at the expense” of benefits. During Prime Minister’s Questions, Burnham said “national security can’t come at the expense of social security” in response to attacks from Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the absence of plans to get defence spending up to three per [...]
PMQs - Badenoch and Burnham clash over defence spending, again, with point scoring back on both sides
The Prime Minister outlined 'the Labour way' of funding defence, the Leader of the Opposition told him not only was he wrong, but he simply doesn't know where he's getting the money for any of his plans defence or otherwise. The two also clashed over the Chagos Islands
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National security ‘can’t come at the expense of social security’ – Andy Burnham
National security “can’t come at the expense of social security”, the Prime Minister has insisted, as he criticised Tory plans to fund defence.Tory leader Kemi Badenoch used Andy Burnham’s second Prime Minister’s Questions to question whether the Government would reach 3% for defence funding by 2030, insisting there were “serious threats to national security that cannot wait”.
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