Your starter for ten: what is the difference between an ambition, a promise, a certainty and a commitment? If you can work it out, send a postcard to 10 Downing Street, SW1A, and you may have clarified the government’s plans on defence spending.
Today, ten months after it was launched and following a weekend of drip-feeding of various elements by ministers, the Strategic Defence Review will be published today. The prime minister launched it – a demonstration of his strange literalism – at a dockyard, rather than risk anything so exacting as announcing a major policy review to parliament first. Already, however, ministers are coming badly unstuck over how much money they are planning to spend to implement it.
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