Keir Starmer has won plaudits for his decision to increase defence spending (albeit by less than the amount he’s given Ed Miliband to run a pretend energy company) and voters appear to be firmly behind the PM’s decision to fund this modest splurge by raiding the international development budget.

The latest City AM Freshwater Strategy poll shows that only the lily-livered LibDems and peacenik Greens oppose the plan. Labour, Tory and even SNP voters give the move a thumbs up, and while the government will insist that politics never came into........

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