{"id":667906,"date":"2026-07-01T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667906\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:25:08","slug":"badenoch-accuses-starmer-of-leaving-defence-spending-mess-for-burnham-as-they-clash-at-pmqs-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667906\/","title":{"rendered":"Badenoch accuses Starmer of leaving defence spending &#8216;mess&#8217; for Burnham as they clash at PMQs &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biggest sustained funding increase for defence in 40 years &#8211; Starmerpublished at 12:19 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:19 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Badenoch says the threat level has changed dramatically since<br \/>\nStarmer took office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defence investment plan has &#8220;unravelled&#8221; she says, and they are spending too much money instead on welfare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is \u00a35bn short, she says, and Starmer is &#8220;leaving this mess&#8221; to his successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Badenoch asks if Andy Burnham agreed to fund the shortfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starmer replies that the Tories cut defence spending, and that he will take no lectures on either welfare or defence from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is \u00a315bn of new investment for defence delivered outside of a Budget and outside of a spending review, he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What matters is this is the biggest sustained increase for 40 years to keep the country safe, he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biggest sustained funding increase for defence in 40 years &#8211; Starmerpublished at 12:19 BST 12:19 BST Badenoch says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-667906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}