Starmer’s ‘Near-Death Experience’ Pushes Him To Make £18 Billion Defence Pledge

“If this has finally prompted him to wake up from this stupor, then I’ll take the win.” Starmer has finally seen “what is painfully and scarily obvious to all of us”: that the world has become extremely dangerous, and £18 billion is a “decent sum of money”, says former Downing Street director of communications for Boris Johnson, Guto Harri. Guto Harri and Rebecca Hutson were speaking to Rosie Wright and Calum Macdonald on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live every day from 6–10am. 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_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/