The government’s long-awaited Defence Investment Plan (DIP) has finally been published, after months of wrangling over the issue and multiple ministerial resignations.
While Sir Keir Starmer has promised the DIP will reverse the “corrosive hollowing out” of the armed forces, the funding package still falls well short of the £28bn military officials said would be necessary to fill a black hole in the MoD’s budget. Meanwhile, with Sir Keir set to leave office within weeks, there is no guarantee that the funding set out today will still stand under the next prime minister.
