Labour Is ‘Delaying’ The £10bn Defence Spending Britain Needs | Oliver Wright

“You can cynically characterise the government's current position as ‘let's wait and hope that something turns up’.” The government is delaying difficult decisions over defence spending in the hope that borrowing costs will fall, but Britain’s enemies will not wait for its finances to improve, says The Times’s policy editor, Oliver Wright. Oliver Wright was speaking to Andrew Neil on The Times at One. Listen live every Monday-Thursday, 1-2pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Find us on Facebook:   / timesandsundaytimes   Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram:   / thetimes