Calls To Increase Defence Spending Could Clash With Labour's Tight Fiscal Rules

Edward Arnold, a Senior Research Fellow at defence think tank RUSI, told PoliticsHome a future Labour Government could find it as difficult as the current administration to “unlock” funds for defence. “At the moment the difficulty is the tight control over fiscal rules and policy announcements. Labour will criticise the current Government for their cuts, but they won’t go as far to say they would reverse them,” he said.