Armed forces were hollowed out under Tories, says Starmerpublished at 12:20 GMT

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Badenoch says it is clear Starmer either doesn’t have the detail of the deployment of troops in Ukraine, or doesn’t want to share it.

She repeats her call for the prime minister to call an emergency meeting of Nato leaders, and that he should have spoken to Trump by now.

“If any peace deal is breached we would be in direct conflict with Russia,” she says.

It is time for the prime minister to move from ambition to commitment, she adds, asking in which year the UK will spend 3% of GDP on defence.

Starmer says he spoke to Trump twice over the Christmas break, as well as other allies.

On spending, he says the government is delivering the biggest sustained increase since the Cold War, before adding that the armed forces were “hollowed out” under the Tories.

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