Gavin Williamson on dangerous ground in defence budget row

Ministers and mandarins will resent implication they do not care about the military as much as defence secretary A senior civil servant, surveying media coverage over the last few days, expressed exasperation with warring cabinet ministers. He was not, for once, referring to the battle over Brexit but to an increasingly bitter stand-off over the future of British defence.
“It is open season at the moment,” the well-placed civil servant said, referring to a series of stories he assume