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- Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he will not cut housing benefit to fund defence.
- Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch asked how the 3% GDP defence target by 2030 will be met.
- Burnham reaffirmed a goal to raise core defence spending to 3.5% GDP by 2035.
- He warned that cutting £4 billion from housing benefit would cause unprecedented homelessness.
- Burnham defended new UK sanctions on Israeli settlers as support for a two-state solution.
