The prime minister announced the UK will reallocate aid funds to boost military spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027.
Prime minister Keir Starmer declared his “unwavering support” for Ukraine as senior Conservative MPs, including Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, leapt to the Mr Zelensky’s defence
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Badenoch and Starmer clash over how much defence budget is actually increasing
Increasing defence budget will require tough trade-offs
Keir Starmer announced plans for the most sustained increase in UK defence spending since the cold war, Kemi Badenoch gave a speech about foreign policy, and Amanda Pritchard resigned as head of NHS England.
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PMQs: Kemi Badenoch has Commons in stitches as she skewers Keir Starmer on defence
Lady Chief Justice Baroness Sue Carr says a question asked by Kemi Badenoch and the answer given by Sir Keir Starmer were both "unacceptable".
England’s most senior judge reasserted the independence of the courts on Tuesday as she condemned as “unacceptable” recent comments by Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch about a tribunal’s immigration ruling.
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Keir Starmer accused Kemi Badenoch of “a desperate search for relevance” as the pair clashed over the government’s plans to boost defence spending. The prime minister delivered the brutal slapdown after the Tory leader highlighted apparent discrepancies between him and defence secretary John Healey.
Keir Starmer has demolished Kemi Badenoch and her 'desperate search for relevance' in a bruising PMQs session ahead of his trip to meet Donald Trump in Washington DC
Keir Starmer was condemned as “patronising” by Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister’s Questions this lunchtime, as they engaged in a hate-filled war of words. The pair returned to jousting after a two week break, descending into a verbal Punch and Judy match over the PM’s defence spending plans.
I’m going to have to let the leader of the opposition down gently. She didn’t feature in my thinking at all. I was so busy over the weekend I didn’t even see her proposal."
Keir Starmer has received a boost to his popularity over his response to the growing Ukraine crisis. More Brits now think he makes the best prime minister when compared to Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage.
Kemi Badenoch has warned Keir Starmer that the Government's funding for its plan to use the overseas aid budget to increase defence spending raises "serious questions". Ministers have provided “totally inconsistent figures” for how it will pay for its defence spending increase, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.
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