{"id":356894,"date":"2026-06-30T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/unfriendly-fire-who-buys-the-defence-investment-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:00:19","slug":"unfriendly-fire-who-buys-the-defence-investment-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/unfriendly-fire-who-buys-the-defence-investment-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfriendly fire: Who buys the defence investment plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/P8iqnCW0veE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Unfriendly fire: Who buys the defence investment plan?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P8iqnCW0veE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Will the long-awaited Defence Investment Plan be the Prime Minister\u2019s final and most contentious act?<\/p>\n<p>Months of delays, a multi-billion-pound funding gap and the resignation of his Defence Secretary has  Keir Starmer done enough to satisfy his military chiefs?<\/p>\n<p>Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy unpack the political and strategic stakes and assess how NATO allies, not least Donald Trump, will make of the plans.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, with the PM\u2019s departure from No10 on the horizon, is Labour already seeing a polling bounce?<\/p>\n<p>And, after more than two years of disruption has Health Secretary \u2013 James Murray \u2013 finally succeeded where others have failed by bringing the resident doctors strike to an end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the long-awaited Defence Investment Plan be the Prime Minister\u2019s final and most contentious act? 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