Increased defence spending should be funded from extra borrowing, a Labour former Cabinet minister has said, as he urged the Chancellor to “break free from Treasury orthodoxy”. Peter Hain argued the need for Rachel Reeves to bend her fiscal rules, given the “exceptional, and exceptionally dangerous, times” now faced by the UK. Lord Hain said […]

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