The Conservatives have pledged to invest £10bn in an Iron Dome - but now Badenoch is drawing back from what is proposed is in fact not an Iron Dome.
The BBC has reported that earlier this year, Gen Sir Richard Barrons told MPs on the Commons Defence Select Committee the cost of an iron dome at entry level is probably £80bn over 10 years. Sidharth Kaushal, a senior fellow at the defence and security think thank RUSI (the Royal United Services Institute)- “if what the Conservatives envision is a truly Israeli style multi-layered missile defence system, £10bn probably wouldn't get there," he said."But that system would also be quite superfluous, arguably.”
When challenged by the BBC Badenoch drew back: "We are not building the Iron Dome... We are designing something specific for the kind of threat that we face here.” We all await costed detail of proposal of this Iron Dome.
Badenoch told the BBC in same interview "We need to get serious, we need to find savings." So Badenoch is being up front the Authority previous approach i.e austerity and prioritising savings from the less well off to fund whatever the Iron Dome (not) will cost be and jam for the better off will be business as usual. . For example, Badenoch proposes to get rid of inheritance tax, purposes to remove the £100,000 per parent earnings limit above which they would currently not be entitled to 30 hours of free child care between 9 months and 4 years old and to find savings from the welfare budget, redirecting spending on net-zero research, reinstating the two child benefit cap and restricting housing benefits.
