Streeting says he began stockpiling food weeks ago amid rising threat to UK

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Defence secretary says value for money and modernisation key for defence spending to ‘fight the wars ahead’ Wes Streeting started stockpiling food and water in case of a national emergency weeks ago, the defence secretary has said, as he talked up the threats to the UK and said his department has already begun ramping up its spending in response. Streeting spoke after the chancellor, John Healey,
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