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Defence Secretary faces questions on £4.7bn funding gap left to Andy Burnham

Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis is facing questions over a £4.7 billion black hole (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Wire)

Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis is facing questions over a £4.7 billion black hole in the plan to raise defence spending and whether Andy Burnham was blindsided by the need to plug that gap in his first budget.

Sir Keir Starmer announced £15 billion of spending over the next four years to support the Defence Investment Plan, but the Treasury put off setting out full details of how it would fund the increase.

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