Kemi Badenoch: “Andy Burnham is kicking defence spending into the long grass.”

Our enemies are not going to sit around and wait for Labour to find the money to fight them.

Like Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham is kicking defence spending into the long grass. I cannot tell you how urgent this is.

He has spent the week boasting about how he wants to cut the costs of his bloated civil service in Scotland, but at the same time he’s committed to wasting more taxpayers’ money and time on opening more of his fake embassies.

It’s absolutely essential. If this decision had been made earlier in the summer, we could have had gas from Jackdaw in people’s homes by this winter, by Christmas.