Starmer’s Defence Investments Won’t Be Ready For A Decade | Tobias Ellwood

“We cannot stick our head in the sand any longer.” Sir Keir Starmer’s defence investment plan offers a “plausible” set of investments to “modernise” the British military, however the late spending targets mean Britain won’t be “war-ready” until 2035, says former chair of the defence committee Tobias Ellwood. Tobias Ellwood and Henry Hill were speaking to Kait Borsay on The Evening Edition on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Thursday, from 7-10pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Find us on Facebook:   / timesandsundaytimes   Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram:   / thetimes