UK to increase protection costs up to 2.5% GDP by 2027

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Sir Keir Starmer announced that the UK defense spending up to 2027 would grow up to 2.5 percent of GDP and reach 3 percent in the long run.

The British Prime Minister told MPs on Tuesday that this would be “the greatest sustainable increase in defense costs from the end of the Cold War”.

His intervention occurred when he was preparing to ride in Washington for negotiations Donald Trump On Thursday, the future of Ukraine and the broader security of Europe. Trump has called on European countries to raise protection costs.

Starmer said the House of Commons: “We must change our national security pose because generation is required for generation.” This will include “extremely difficult and excruciating choices”.

He announced that this would be financed by reducing the UK aid budget from 0.5 percent of gross national income up to 0.3 percent over the next two years.

Starmer also posted the ambitions to remove the cost of defense up to 3 percent of GDP, “subject to economic and financial conditions” during the next parliament – which is expected to be held from about 2029 to 2033.

The Prime Minister has long encountered calls for writing when Labaris complies with his manifesto to increase protection costs from his current level by 2.3 percent to 2.5 percent.

In recent weeks, the pressure has emerged in recent weeks after the US president outlined the intention to ensure a rapid ceasefire in Ukraine and questioned his appetite to continue to provide significant US military support to Europe.

Enlargement will be Cost from 5 billion pounds and 6 billion pounds per year – equivalent to about 10 percent of the basic budget schools in England.

UK military chiefs privately pushed to grow up to 2.65 percent of GDP, which will be £ 10 billion every year than the current budget.

Starmer said that after 2027, defense costs would increase to 2.6 percent of GDP when the cost of intelligence agencies were included.

Earlier, on Tuesday, Cams Conservatives Badenoch called on the government to “redo” the budget for financing protection expenses, and stated that the cost of 2.5 percent by the end of the decade is “not enough”.

In a speech in the London policy based in the London political analytical centers, it will return Starmer to “making difficult decisions” to increase defense costs.