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...The expected announcement comes as Conservative MPs mount a fresh campaign to compel Sunak to commit to higher defence spending....
...Last year, two-thirds of the total €1.2tn of Nato defence spending was by the US, more than double the €361bn spent by EU members, the UK and Norway combined....
...Standing alongside German chancellor Olaf Scholz, Sunak said that on top of higher defence spending, the UK would “continue to invest in public services and cut people’s taxes”....
...Sunak said the UK was not on the brink of war but it was a sensible precaution to boost defence spending and put the defence industry on a “war footing”....
...Uncertain states The promise would mean the UK’s Nato-qualifying defence spending would rise from £64.6bn this year to £78.2bn by 2028-29, with a sharp rise to £87.1bn by 2030-31, at which point the 2.5...
...Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, this week put Britain’s defence industry on a “war footing”, with expenditure scheduled to rise to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030, and Nato recently announced a $100bn spending...
...Germany, France and Italy — Nato’s biggest spending militaries after the US and the UK — remain below the alliance’s 2 per cent of GDP spending target, although they have set out plans to meet the goal in...
...The UK government has no “credible plan” to deliver the military capabilities it seeks and the country’s armed forces will have to cut some of their programmes unless overall defence spending is raised,...
...Many have pointed to the fact that over the past two years, just as spending has surged in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 78 per cent of defence equipment acquired by EU member states...
...“I am in Warsaw today to deepen ties with our Polish partners and commit critical new military support for Ukraine’s defence,” Sunak will say....
...The reforms come amid growing concern over the state of the UK’s armed forces and calls for the government to increase its defence spending in the growing threat from Russia and China....
...The investments come as the government prepares to set out how it plans to sustain and modernise the UK’s nuclear deterrent in a new Defence Command Paper....
...defence spending....
...“On defence spending, obviously we want to get to 2.5 per cent as soon as resources allow that to happen,” he said....
...The Australian government has committed to increasing defence spending by more than A$50bn (US$32bn) over the next decade as it prepares its military forces to be able to “resist coercion” regionally....
...It is a “foundational component” of UK security, according to the government’s integrated defence review....
...The UK government has pledged this week to increase defence spending from about 2.3 per cent to 2.5 per cent of national income....
...The UK plans to overhaul the way it buys military equipment as ministers seek to break with a legacy of disastrous defence procurement that has repeatedly led to multibillion-pound weapon programmes dogged...
...Concerns in Europe that Donald Trump might disengage the US from Nato would become “much less relevant” if all countries in the alliance hit their defence spending targets, said Grant Shapps, Britain’s defence...
...They say defence is the best form of attack. Spending on defence is also a good method of boosting the companies that build the weaponry....
...The spending on the Australia-UK-US security pact known as Aukus, the country’s naval surface fleet, long-range missile capability and an enlarged military force will increase the defence budget as a proportion...
...Its defence spending, for example, is currently running at about 0.8 per cent of GDP....
...Defence spending also creates a lot of good on-shored high-tech jobs....
...The government’s “aspiration” to raise defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP “as circumstances allow” is inadequate; in the cold war era of the 1970s and early 1980s, spending topped 4 per cent....
...The UK retains “absolute confidence” in its nuclear deterrent despite the second failed test of a dummy missile in eight years, defence secretary Grant Shapps said on Wednesday....
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