John Healey: “After explaining to you that I would not be able to accept a DIP settlement that does not give our Forces the resources…”

The money New Labour had in the nineties is simply not there now.

And every chancellor would say that’s for the budget, and I’ll set out my plans and the future route for government for this country at that budget.

These times demand of us a greater resolve, a greater determination and a greater hope.

Britain has it harder now. We had 13 years of flatlining tory growth in living standards when Cameron’s austerity gutted our public services, when Johnson’s Brexit hammered our exports and Truss’s mini budget crashed our economy.