If the right wants money for defence, it can start with MoD wastefulness – or even the pensioner triple lock | Polly Toynbee

There is nothing left to be squeezed from disabled people or families, yet some continue to bang the same old drum What’s it to be, warfare or welfare, social or military spending, guns or butter? Hermann Göring coined that phrase calling for re-armament, “Guns will make us powerful, butter will only make us fat.” In her “Britain awake” speech, Margaret Thatcher in 1976 warned that the Soviets “put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns” – though defence spending f...

By Polly Toynbee