Senior sources have indicated that the Prime Minister would deliver real-terms rises in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) budget after 2015.
Tensions have been growing in the Coalition as negotiations begin
over how to save billions of pounds more in the 2015-16 spending review.
Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, who has already seen his budget slashed by 8% in real terms since 2010, is believed to be among ministers resisting further cuts.
However, during the Prime Minister’s trip to North Africa it was signalled that he “does not resile” from comments he made in October 2010, when he appeared to accept that defence spending had to start rising again from 2015 onwards.
But Mr Hammond said today that he had been given a commitment that the equipment side of his budget – accounting for
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