KEMI Badenoch has pledged a £10billion a year boost to defence spending by 2030 — via huge welfare cuts.

The ’s savings would include £4billion from housing benefit reforms and £3billion by reimposing the two-child benefit cap.

Kemi Badenoch, a conservative leader, stands in a car showroom, preparing for media interviews.Kemi Badenoch has pledged a £10billion a year boost to defence spending by 2030 Credit: Getty Special Operations Forces members engage an enemy location during a validation exercise.The Tory leader says the first duty of every government is defence Credit: Getty

If she wins office, she would also scrap the .

has heaped pressure on PM and his Chancellor to plans to hit three per cent of GDP on defence by 2030.

She said: “The first duty of every government is defence — and the Conservatives will always put our defence first.

“That’s why we are setting out our plans to reach three per cent on defence spending by the end of this .

“John Healey saying Labour weren’t keeping our country safe.

“Now he is Chancellor he should adopt our plans and make sure our armed forces have the funding they need.”

At in the job, Labour MP Tan Dhesi, who chairs the Defence select committee, told the PM “vibes alone are not going to be enough”.

He added that rather than “kicking the can down the road” the PM should commit to three per cent by 2030.

Aerial view of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Island group.She has also pledged to scrap the Chagos Islands deal if she wins office Credit: AP A Special Operations Land Task Group member in camouflage uniform and balaclava sitting in a military vehicle with a Union Jack flag on their chest.The Tory leader’s savings would include £4billion from housing benefit reforms Credit: Getty

Mr Burnham replied he had “made that commitment very clear”.

But Government sources have pointed to the Chancellor saying this week that the target date would be set out at the spending review in the .

Mr Healey quit as Defence Secretary in June during Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership over the Armed Forces spending plan.

Lord Dannatt, the former head of the British , told Times Radio last night: “My heart bleeds for John Healey.

“He resigned over Keir Starmer’s unwillingness and Rachel Reeves’ inability to fund defence.

“He now realises the wider financial issues that the Government has got.”