The Labour plans will need £116 billion in additional public and private investment, while the Conservative proposal will require £104.6 billion.
If GDP forecasts are correct, that would mean spending £87.1 billion a year on defence.
Some of these patients are waiting for multiple treatments, which means that the overall waiting list is larger.
The number of married pensioners living in poverty fell from 22% in 2005, when Labour last won a general election, to 14% in 2010.
Ben Wallace said national service is ‘perfectly normal in most of Northern Europe. Young people are better for it’.
