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- Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the defence investment plan now faces a £4.7 billion shortfall.
- He suggested the gap could be covered by borrowing, despite earlier pledges against such financing.
- Chancellor Kemi Badenoch pressed him on the shortfall, prompting Starmer to say the £22 billion Conservative deficit could fund it.
- Starmer appeared unusually angry in the session, later describing the exchange as personal catharsis.
