Unite's Graham: Fire Reeves Over Defence Plan Delay

0:00It's February 27th. This episode is brought to you by NordVPN, fast, reliable online privacy. Links in the episode description. Let's get into the latest UK headlines. Sharon Graham, the head of Britain's largest union unite, says, Chancellor Rachel Reeves should be fired if the Treasury keeps delaying a major defense. Investment plan worth billions. She's slamming both Reeves and Prime Minister Keir Starmer for dragging their feet on Labour's blueprint to modernize the armed forces. The plan, known as the Defense Investment Plan, was supposed to drop last autumn, but keeps getting pushed back due to budget tight fistedness. Graham wants military spending ramped up to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2027, while Starmer pledged 5 percent by 20. 35, with talks now of hitting 3 percent by 2029, reactions are pouring in from all sides. An armed forces minister warned this week that Britain has less than 3 years to gear up for a potential clash with a big power like Russia, opposition figures call a chaos,

1:05saying Labour's tough talk on defense is a matching up with action. Industry groups are feeling the pinch, too, with businesses in aerospace and defense struggling from the spending slowdown and lack of clear funding. Signals. Military planners can't move forward without this plan, which covers 67 billion pounds in commitments from last year's defense review. Ministers insist they're working hard to finalize it, likely for release in March or April, to get top gear to troops fast and boost the economy, through British jobs. But until it's out, doubts linger over whether Labour can deliver on its security promises.