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Good evening. The Prime Minister has unveiled the biggest uplift to military spending in a generation, which will add £23 billion to the military budget over the next six years.
Elsewhere, the French Navy allowed a dinghy packed with migrants to continue across the Channel to Britain despite the deaths of five people, including a seven-year-old girl, on board.
Sunak unveils biggest military spending increase in a generation
Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase Britain’s defence budget to £75 billion a year by the end of the decade, taking it to 2.5pc of national wealth.
French navy lets packed migrant boat reach England despite five deaths onboard
Three men and a woman died alongside a seven-year-old girl, who was crushed when people smugglers crammed more than 100 migrants onto the dinghy.
