Defensive Choices: The Competing Spending Priorities Ahead of the Budget

Six weeks until the budget and the lobbying for Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's attention is well underway. But with the UK launching air strikes on Yemen, are the asks for electioneering tax cuts ignoring the big geopolitical risks on the horizon? Former Chair of the Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood met the Chancellor last week to push for 2.5% of Britain's GDP should be spent on the armed forces. He makes the case on the podcast that Britain should be thinking far more seriously about a coming 'World at War'.