{"id":526766,"date":"2026-07-01T01:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526766\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:05:09","slug":"why-starmers-defence-plan-leaves-next-pm-with-4-7bn-headache-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526766\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Starmer&#039;s defence plan leaves next PM with \u00a34.7bn headache &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5UdWRneF90V3lzM00yWm5DQmdtOGp3V2FiVHFHR2RmTllxWWFCUFRpT1ZMa2N1NHYtTXRBajQyaVVjYWNQQW1sLVJHWGhIWXVmWkF0VlNuMzNodw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why Starmer&#8217;s defence plan leaves next PM with \u00a34.7bn headache<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMidEFVX3lxTFBySHZSQXdLWmo4NEVqT1JkSU9qZVB4NlZydVBiMmJEeVRUTWhQY3NPeHJZV0dNbjRxNng1MTNiQ0Y0b2xoaXRnMjZpQ2dJcGh2RTJXS3NENWJwblNGUHlJd1dkVmVoMHBtSVBqaHdTRjNWVm16?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Outgoing UK PM announces &#8216;record&#8217; defence spending<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi3gFBVV95cUxOUUhqcGh1RzZoc3Rkd01rM1RkelY1WE1qMkoxOWFObld6ME90cjFRZUpLczBMUDFWZ1g5Z3NRQTdNRmtYaFRVc2JFaVY1SUFwQm1SbUkxSjdMZVFUQ3YycWdDd0IzWUl1R2hrcUVOUFROYXBhdG1IU2tfME9FS29DV0lJSmJQYjFIU0w0STgwYmlBNzZBT3N3S1l3T0NtYXd1bjNnUnV6V0xJR3dxTXMwekVrT2c1bjRHNXNtQ0FjNXg2RUJfOEM2SHRCZ0lkVkxYdEJZUC12MlhPWlNfanc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Next chancellor will have to find \u00a35bn to fund black hole in defence funding, government figures reveal \u2013 as it happened<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiVEFVX3lxTE9pNkQxN0RNZVBRQ2p1ZVFUY0ROVTU4anFoOEJEU0w1X2lyM0w0ZVRSejFaSHFLTUs5R2d5cHQ5THl5ZG16QkdYLXhTcF9IYkNldUhaOQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Defence secretary says &#8216;difficult but necessary&#8217; choices made to find extra armed forces funding<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxPR21ObHZ0d21TSURVQ3ZWWE9mcXNHZ3p0bHAwUXJJVUNVeURMUS1sNTEyY2tjTFFhb2xLRjhPTnZzRE9kR3gtRlhHSW5OTXhabUJRVnVad3RtYnI2TmowMlB5QVo2MVB4ZmROdHRuSy0tVC00blZOalF0dEpaWnphTDVvbkwydTdhU1VUa3JHRnRKWkIt?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Britain unveils its new Ukraine-modeled armed forces<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;politico.eu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Starmer&#8217;s defence plan leaves next PM with \u00a34.7bn headache&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCOutgoing UK PM announces &#8216;record&#8217; defence spending&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ieNext chancellor will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-526766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}