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Expected next UK PM Burnham faces defense funding gap

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01-07-2026 | 04:24

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Expected next UK PM Burnham faces defense funding gap

Andy Burnham will have to find an additional £4.7 billion ($6.2 billion) to close a defense funding gap, either through deeper spending cuts or higher taxes, if, as expected, he becomes British prime minister later this month.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday announced a long-delayed defense plan aimed at making Britain's depleted armed forces war-ready amid rising security threats and warnings that Russia could attack a NATO member as soon as 2030.

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