{"id":69745,"date":"2026-07-30T19:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/69745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:12:34","slug":"burnham-promises-higher-defence-spending-and-more-nuclear-subs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/69745\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham promises higher defence spending and more nuclear subs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Burnham promises higher defence spending and more nuclear subs\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SRd1-EmG33g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBurnham promises higher defence spending and more nuclear subs<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDefence is in UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham&#8217;s sights, as his relentless policy crusade continues. <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Burnham\u2019s used a recommitment of investment in updating the Trident nuclear submarine programme to repeat his promise of reindustrialising Britain. <\/p>\n<p>Questions linger, though, about whether he&#8217;ll commit to spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter: Andrew Misra<br \/>\nProducer: Helen Johnson<br \/>\nCamera\/Editor: Ken McCallum <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burnham promises higher defence spending and more nuclear subs Defence is in UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham&#8217;s sights,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[20540,4291,46800,366,352,365,1076,7022,354,353,67,4177,58009,58006,58007,415,58010,58008,341,267,235],"class_list":["post-69745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-andy-burnham","tag-army","tag-burnham-news","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-defence","tag-defence-spending","tag-international-news","tag-latest-news","tag-nato","tag-navy","tag-nuclear-submarines","tag-pm-burnham","tag-pm-defence","tag-prime-minister","tag-trident","tag-uk-nato","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-politics","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117010661736563284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}