Defence Secretary Ben Wallace accused of 'disdain' after he slammed junior minister Johnny Mercer over military funding row. NickFerrariLBC
: "Johnny is a junior minister, and Johnny luckily doesn't have to run the budget.
Asked if Mr Mercer, whose role as minister of state for veterans' affairs is within the Cabinet Office rather than the Ministry of Defence, was being naive, Mr Wallace said: "No, no, no. I just think, you know, his experience is not... he's not the Secretary of State." During a debate last month in the Commons, Mr Wallace said he was "happy to say that we have been hollowed out and underfunded".
It comes against a backdrop of UK efforts to support Ukraine in pushing back invading Russian troops and rising global tensions with China.
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