Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said 2.5% of Britain's GDP would be spent on defence, putting the industry on a war footing. Mr Sunak said the action was needed because authoritarian regimes were acting together to further their interests.
The article discusses the issues related to spending on defence research and development (R&D) in Great Britain. It cites the data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which showed that spending in defence (R&D) in the country has declined by 57% since 1989. In 2011, the R&D ...
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Rishi Sunak will deliver some tough remarks about the importance of defence spending and the need to stand up to Russia and China, but his own military looks set to remain as hollow as his words.
Mr Trump would likely push European Nato members to aim for 3% of GDP (gross domestic product) spending on defence, she told PA, an area where the UK is currently predicted to spend some 2.3% of GDP in 2024 while it grapples with ailing public finances. ...
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- Raise defence spending - 15 billion pounds - Cut the interest rate on student loans to RPI rate of inflation - 1 billion pounds TOTAL: 40 BILLION POUNDS A YEAR (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and William Schomberg; editing by Kate Holton and Stephen Addison) Copyright...
With a defence budget of £54bn, equivalent to 2.1 per cent of GDP, the UK is Nato’s biggest military spender after the US in absolute terms. According to secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg, 18 of the alliance’s 31 members will meet the 2 per cent spending target this year, including...
Defence review has raised questions about whether GCAP programme will be axed on grounds of cost July 1 2024 InterviewUK defence spending UK military unprepared for ‘conflict of any scale’, warns ex-defence official Britain’s armed forces would be unable to defend the country in the event of...