Tony Blair leads tributes to Frank Field, ‘an independent thinker always pushing at the frontier of new ideas’ – UK politics live

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Tony Blair leads tributes to Frank Field, ‘an independent thinker always pushing at the frontier of new ideas’ – UK politics live

Tributes paid to former Labour minister and welfare campaigner Frank Field, who has died at the age of 81Ben Zaranko, an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank, has criticised the government for presenting its pledge to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP as a £75bn increase. He posted these on X.It’s only a “£75 billion increase” over 6 years if you assume that spending would otherwise have been frozen in cash terms for 6 yea…