Empty benches where Reform UK MPs usually sit.

Reform UK MPs have been described as “Putin’s poodles” for failing to turn up for Keir Starmer’s announcement about extra defence spending.

Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s leader at Westminster, took aim at the right-wing party as MPs responded to the PM.

Starmer said that the amount of money the government spends on defence will increase from 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) to 2.7% by 2027.

He said the money will be found by cutting the foreign aid budget from 0.5% to 0.3% of GDP.

As Flynn got up to ask his question, the benches behind him where Reform MPs normally........

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