Emily Thornberry MP, Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary, commenting on a Defence Committee Report’s finding that the 2 per cent defence spending is achieved through creative accounting, said:

“After the crippling cuts to the Armed Forces imposed by the Tories throughout the last Parliament‎, we were promised that 2015 would mark a turning point. Instead, it’s increasingly clear that the 2 per cent commitment is being delivered not through increases in front-line defence spending but by fiddling the books. Time and again on defence, the Tories are shown to be all rhetoric and no reality, and it is our Armed Forces who are paying the price.”

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