Brown confirms that defence spending did not rise every year in a letter to Sir John Chilcott

The prime minister has written to Sir John Chilcot to clarifythe evidence he gave to the Iraq inquiry. Mr Brown claimed that defence spending had risen in real terms every year, however the letter to Sir John Chilcott shows that defence spending actually fell in real terms during four of the years that Mr Brown was chancellor.

Here is the full text of the prime minister’s letter:

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