Newspaper headlines: ‘Defensive black hole’ and ‘Starmer’s gift to Burnham’

Many of Wednesday’s papers lead to the fallout from the announcement of the Defense Investment Plan (DIP). Sir Keir Starmer’s “gift” to Andy Burnham for the first budget is a “£4.7bn hole”, writes The i Paper. The outgoing prime minister says he “risks a political row”, after failing to secure the third installment of the scheme.