Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge has claimed that the Government has backtracked on its promise to increase spending to 3 per cent of GDP and cannot fund its promises on defence. He told GB News: "The really key point is that the Prime Minister can promise all the ships, submarines, tanks he wants, but it all has to be paid for. "We have now is that last week, John Healey, the Defence Secretary, said it was absolutely certain that we would get to 3 per cent GDP on defence. That's incredibly important. Since then, he's backtracked, and basically we don't know where the government stands on the money."That's really important, because the authors of this Strategic Defence Review have written in The Telegraph today saying that it's entirely based on the assumption of going to 3 per cent. So, whatever you hear today, frankly, you can take it with a pinch of salt unless we get certainty on the money."WATCH ABOVE.
