Defence and defence spending is not a vote winner, so expect piecemeal reference to it between now and June.
It had only become an election issue as the Leader of HM Opposition categorically stated that he would NEVER use the nuclear deterrent-thus rendering it useless. Yet official Labour Party policy is to replace Trident.
This is now been used to smack him round the head repeatedly by his critics and to show that he's not fit to lead.
Perhaps he should have watched Dr Strangelove and find out the meaning of deterrence before he opened his mouth?