Defence delays

Wake Up To Money

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Following a delay to the Defence Investment Plan, what does the lack of certainty mean? Will Bain also looks into the ongoing impact of botched insulation installed in peoples homes under a government scheme. And as we step into Christmas, it's a busy time for butchers.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay?
0:23.7	It's Christmas Kitchen Disno season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip Christmas bangers every day.
0:28.6	Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy.
0:32.6	Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:36.4	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. Hello, morning. Welcome. Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:39.8	Hello morning, welcome to wake up to money.
0:42.0	MPs have asked a question in the commons.
0:44.9	Which brings me to the elephant in the house this afternoon.
0:48.7	Where is the long-awaited defence investment plan?
0:53.1	So we're going to ask just that on the programme this morning
0:55.8	and look at why companies are now starting to voice their concerns
0:59.0	about what's going on with the funding model
1:01.3	and hear why that could be a threat to jobs.
1:04.4	Also today we look at the ongoing impact of a botched installation
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