Will Labour prioritise defence at the expense of public services and welfare?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Strategic Defence Review implies significant increases in spending and Sir Keir Starmer has insisted the money will be found but without explaining how. Will any new money for defence be well spent and how will Starmer and Rachel Reeves fund the increases? Is defence a more urgent priority than other needs such as social care and the NHS? What will be the political consequences? And is the UK heading for war or investing to avoid one? We attempt to answer these epic questions and disagree in a constructive spirit.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Ian Martin, Miranda Green and Tim Montgomery.
0:18.2	Thank you very much for tuning in. And we're going to be reflecting
0:22.3	on the Defence, the Strategic Defence Review, published earlier in the week, on many different
0:29.8	layers. We're going to delve deep. But beforehand, thank you all of those of you who kind
0:35.3	of tweeted or responded in some way or another to the fact that it was
0:39.2	our first anniversary last week. We got some really great responses, didn't we? Yep, we did
0:44.1	got one of my oldest friends saying, I couldn't take any more of it. I turned off after eight
0:48.3	minutes of you. You're not congratulating yourselves. But beyond that, we got some very nice
0:53.6	responses. That was the most upbeat message we got some very nice responses.
0:56.3	That was the most upbeat message we got.
0:57.8	No, it wasn't. It wasn't.
0:59.9	We were gratified, weren't we?
1:02.5	Yeah, no, it was really great to get positive feedback.
1:06.0	And yeah, it gave us, it's always good.
1:08.6	Negative feedback makes you miserable.
1:10.0	Positive feedback is great.
1:12.3	It absolutely is. And I'm very conscious that one of the forms of feedback we got was more additions where we take listeners questions. And so
1:19.3	I think for next week, we're going to do another listeners' edition. And so please do use the
1:26.2	usual channels. My DMms are always open for example
1:28.9	on twitter on twitter yes people can go through you steve can't they yeah rock and roll politics
1:34.4	and those of you who have already done that in recent weeks i've kept your questions separate
1:39.1	to bring along for our question time session for not another one.
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