Sky Information’ Sam Coates and Poltico’s Anne McElvoy maintain their palms up on this episode – to not seeing Keir Starmer’s huge defence announcement coming yesterday morning.
The plan to shift defence spending to three% of GDP (and a brand new Downing Road podium slogan) is a pivot for the PM.
Sam and Anne focus on the explanations behind it – is that this all about having sufficient to say to Donald Trump in Washington this week? Or is there a glimmer of the imaginative and prescient for Blue Labour Starmer exhibiting by means of too?
In addition they go over the response to the cuts to the worldwide help finances and whether or not the politics of that transfer may very well be simpler for Labour than individuals may suppose.
Elsewhere, NHS England wants a brand new boss – will that be the gateway for the reforms Wes Streeting has talked about?
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