'Healey to defer defence spend target' and 'Fergie's coming home'

Several papers focus on the UK defence spending targets and Chancellor John Healey's plans to shelve his target.

JOHN HEALEY is “only putting on pause” his plans for increasing Britain’s military spending until after the next election, peace campaigners warned today. Unpopular cuts to social spending are likely to have played a role in this “welcome retreat” from the Chancellor’s decision to shelve his own defence spending target

Chancellor resigned as defence secretary in June over what he saw as inadequate ambition for military spending by Sir Keir Starmer’s government

Roadmap for increasing department’s share of GDP will be deferred until next year’s review The chancellor will delay setting out when the UK will meet the target of allocating 3% of GDP on defence until next year’s spending review, the Treasury has confirmed. John Healey resigned as defence secretary in June under Keir