It is a truth universally acknowledged that while foreign and defence policies don’t win general elections most party manifestos bury them in the weeds of the footnotes they can easily lose them.
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The additional £5 billion allocated to Defence represents an attempt to match increased resources against policy priorities and security concerns with.