OPINION: military spending, arms, LabourWar is coming home. Which means that already children and families in some of the poorest countries are suffering because of Starmer’s choices. The vast increases in arms spending projected will not generate many new jobs in any case. The TUC seriously blundered in agreeing to campaign for more military spending in 2022. Workers are already paying the price of the war drive in a fresh round of austerity.