Thats what youd expect from a serious government Channel 4 News [Video]

We sit down with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to talk about his commitment of 2.5% of GDP on defence and tackling the crisis in UK prisons.

Gary Gibbon: You’ve been talking about the 2.5 per cent of GDP you want spent on defence at some future point. There’s some puzzlement back home about how if you’re going to have a review, and then work out the date you’re going to hit it, and yet you’re going to have a spending review before that. So you’re going to decide the envelope, and yet somehow you’re going to stretch the envelope a bit later. It doesn’t quite tally.

Keir Starmer: The commitment to 2.5 per cent is absolute. And we will get to that 2.5 per cent. It is very important. We need to do that within our fiscal rules. I think that actually underscores the seriousness of what we’re doing. If I was to …