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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox and Albert Toth

DARK SECRETS: Streeting risks igniting labour civil war on welfare as he calls for benefits cuts to boost defence | Rare Historical Photos

Wes Streeting has become the first senior cabinet minister to appear to suggest that increased defence spending could be found from welfare savings.

The health secretary said that “the money has to come from somewhere” in a move interpreted as backing Labour’s former defence secretary and ex-Nato secretary general George Robertson earlier this week.

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