Green party said it was ‘obvious from the start’ that Polanski had not committed an offence Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, has defended Andy Burnham’s decision not to give a firm commitment to get defence spending up to 3% of GDP by 2030. Shortly before Keir Starmer resigned, John Healey quit as defence secretary because the government’s defence investment plan did not commit to the 3% figure by 2030. Healey is now chancellor, but Burnham has not given a commitment to reaching 3% on that timetable. Let’s say, for argument’s sake, I just said ‘yes, we will by 2030 meet 3%’. The inevitable next question is how will you fund it? And the trap that I’ve seen so many previous, particularly Conservative, governments fall into is setting out what they would spend or the taxes they would cut