LABOUR’S £15 billion increase in military spending could lead to more than 20,000 job losses, research suggested today as Britain’s largest union slammed the government’s “wrong priorities.”Analysis by Transition Security Project estimated the Defence Investment Plan (Dip) would lead to a net loss of 10,000 jobs due government departments’ capital budgets being slashed to fund the Ministry of Defence.

Government’s plan means ‘extra cash for war and overseas interventions, but less for schools and hospitals,’ Unison general secretary Andrea Egan warns

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