UK Increasing Defence Spending to 2.5% of GDP

Sunak is going to announce that defence spending will rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2030. Current spending is a little over 2%. That’s on top of the £500 million announced for Ukraine. Defence-minded ministers Schapps, Tugendhat, Mordaunt and others have called for the move variously in op-eds over the last few weeks.[…] Read the rest