The shadow chancellor has said the best way the UK can shield itself from global instability is to "have a strong economy ourselves [as] that will give us the capacity to properly fund defence". Andrew Griffith said: "One of the weaknesses in our armoury is the lack of funding for the government's own independent defence plan. Something three days into my role as shadow chancellor, I set out how we would fund that." Read the latest: https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-burnham-labour-badenoch-farage-polanski-12593360 #uk #nato #russia #ukraine #oil #donaldtrump #unitedstates SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-news/id316391924?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_GB Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https://podfollow.com/thisiswhy or Ed Conway's Stuff Matters, available here: https://podfollow.com/stuff-matters To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https://news.sky.com/info/library-sales