Boris Johnson pledges £16bn military spending spree
MoD good or bad? - final two paragraphs in the article in The Times:-
Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, a defence and security think tank, said of the settlement: “It is a remarkable tribute to the persuasive powers of the Ministry of Defence. It’s particularly striking that the government is prepared to make such a significant investment in defence at a time of great fiscal uncertainty.”
Francis Tusa, editor of Defence Analysis, said that it risked “rewarding bad management”. “The black hole is not a Treasury problem, it’s an MoD problem — and they need to deal with it,” he said. Programmes may need to be cut and personnel numbers fall to fund the modernisation, he added.