Road schemes to be scrapped to pay for better defence

Transport and energy projects will be scrapped to help pay for a £15bn boost to defence spending unveiled by Kier Starmer on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister said: “Some capital projects – for example on roads and energy, which are important, but not immediately vital will no longer go ahead as planned.”
Starmer said the extra defence spending would be funded by “reallocating spending from across government departments – reallocating capital budgets by one penny in