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

Many of Wednesday’s papers lead with the fallout from the announcement of the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) yesterday. Sir Keir Starmer’s “gift” to Andy Burnham for his first Budget is a “£4.7bn hole”, writes The i Paper. The outgoing prime minister “risks political row”, it says, after leaving a third of the scheme unfunded.