Labour faced an angry backlash last night after a minister admitted a vital boost to the military may not be delivered within five years. A Treasury minister refused to confirm that the Government will raise defence funding to 2.5 per cent of GDP by the end of the current Parliament. Darren Jones also suggested that spending on the over-stretched Armed Forces may lead to ‘trade-offs’ in other public services.

The editor of America’s oldest magazine is now facing calls for her resignation after issuing a groveling apology for her anti-Trump rant earlier in the week. Laura Helmuth, the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, which has been published continually since 1845, went on the rampage against Trump supporters in posts to social media, describing them as fascists, racists and sexists. But Helmuth has now walked back her comments claiming she was ‘shocked and confused’ when she made them – likely in a bid to save her job.

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Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are set to hold talks on how to support Ukraine against Russia following Donald Trump’s election win. The leaders will speak on Monday in Paris to discuss whether US President Joe Biden can be convinced to give the war-torn country permission to use Storm Shadow missiles in their defence against Russia, The Telegraph reports. The newspaper revealed that there are high hopes in London that Biden will give permission to Kyiv to use the missiles – a request Ukraine has made for months.

Boris Johnson clashed with the King over the issue of slavery, fearing he had been captured by ‘woke ideology’, a new book reveals. The former PM ‘went in quite hard’ on Charles, who was the Prince of Wales at the time, after he said he wanted to ‘acknowledge the evils’ of colonialism. It came after Charles had described the Tory government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda as ‘appalling’, according to political journalist Tim Shipman

It was not the only plot to assassinate Trump during the US election but, had it succeeded, it could have changed the world more than any other event of the past six months. That’s because it was not the act of some lone wolf but a state-sponsored conspiracy by Iran concocted as an act of cold-blooded revenge – at least, that’s according to US Department of Justice charging documents unveiled by a New York court last week. Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan-born fixer who once lived in the US but is now based in Tehran, is accused of accepting money from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the private army of the Iranian regime, to surveil and then plot Trump’s killing in early October.