Wednesday briefing: Defence secretary Ben Wallace goes on the warpath over military spending

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : In today's newsletter: As Boris Johnson, armed forces leaders and Wallace give mixed signals on military spending plans, Archie Bland tries to make the numbers add upGood morning, and good luck making sense of the following sequence of events: first, well sourced reports that defence secretary Ben Wallace is asking for spending on the armed forces to be increased to 2.5% of GDP.
51% :Whatever happens, the terms of the debate on military spending have shiftedProbably the most remarkable index of the way priorities in the west have been reshaped by Russia's invasion of Ukraine is in Germany's new commitment to defence spending - with the infusion of a massive new €100bn (£85bn) fund to boost its armed forces.
48% : "A more realistic outlook is that taxes would have to be higher."
40% :The government would probably raise taxes to pay for it

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