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Keir Starmer: Labour wants to increase defence spending to 2.5% (www.bbc.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Wanderer@lemm.ee to c/unitedkingdom

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A Labour government would aim to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP "as soon as resources allow", Sir Keir Starmer has said.

The Labour leader also told the i newspaper he would conduct a strategic review of defence and security "to be clear what the priorities are".

Sir Keir's aim matches that of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who has also said he wants defence spending to rise to 2.5%

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[–] FatLegTed 9 points 7 months ago

Very sensible. We shouldn't be relying on good old Uncle Sam, he may well throw us under the ~~tank~~ bus anyway.