We ‘Don’t Know’ Where The UK Defence Money Should Go | Matthew Savill
April 15, 2026
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as posted by the channel“We don’t actually have a good understanding of what the total costing of the defence programme looks like.”
While critics have hit out at the “slow” pace Rachel Reeves’s promise of a £10 billion increase in defence spending over the next four years, we “don’t know” exactly how far this will go towards filling the Ministry of Defence’s funding gap, says director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute Matthew Savill.
Matthew Savill was speaking to John Pienaar on Times Radio Drive. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 4-7pm.
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