Deputy PM says cabinet still working through ideas, while not dismissing call for higher defence spending
Dominic Raab has come under pressure over the UK government’s failure to come up with policies to tackle the cost of living, while not ruling out higher defence spending.
“I think … people expect us to test our policies very carefully, to thrash them through, and keep coming up with new ways to ease the pressure.” The government’s suggestions were criticised by Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation thinktank, who said it had “lost the plot” if it thought its ideas would make a substantial difference to people’s lives.
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