“Defence tends to be good at lobbying proudly and loudly…she’s in a no-win situation.”

The Chancellor facing a “lot of problems” as concerns over the massive hole in the defence budgets adds to the Treasury’s Iran oil crisis conundrum, says The Times’s political editor Steven Swinford .

Steven Swinford was speaking to Kate McCann and Stig Abell on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live every day 6-10am.

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