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Starmer announces £15bn boost to UK defence spending amid rising security threats
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a £15 billion increase in defense spending over four years, raising total allocations to almost £300 billion while noting the world’s heightened danger.
It focuses our resources squarely on the readiness of our armed forces, reversing the cuts of recent years, prioritising the availability of our forces and assets, rebuilding ammunition stockpiles, ensuring we are ready to fight and defend our nation and better prepared to win.
We can't just spend more. We have to spend better.
That was the right choice because the world has changed. National security is economic security.
Last year I made the decision in the national interest to reprioritize aid spending toward defense and achieved the biggest uplift in defense spending since the end of the Cold War.
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perspectives
- 1.Russian Foreign Policy
- 2.British Foreign Policy
- 3.Election
- 4.Inflation
- 5.British Politics
- 6.European defense
- 7.BREXIT
- 8.Immigration to the UK
countries
organizations
- 1.North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
- 2.British Ministry of Defense
- 3.Conservative Party
- 4.Labour Party
- 5.British Foreign Office
- 6.First Edition
- 7.Liberal Democractic Party
- 8.Lockheed Martin Corp
persons
- 1.John Healey
- 2.Keir Starmer
- 3.Andy Burnham
- 4.Dan Jarvis
- 5.Donald Trump
- 6.Hamish Falconer
- 7.James Cartlidge
- 8.James MacCleary
- 9.Rachel Reeves