Britain ‘needs to go faster’ on defence spending, Starmer says

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment , train last week with French forces. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Keir Starmer has said Britain “needs to go faster” on defence spending, though any increase to military budgets in this parliament would probably not be as high as the £15bn suggested in an overnight report.

At a press conference in south-west London, the prime minister was asked to comment on a BBC report that No 10 wanted to increase the defence budget to 3% of GDP by 2029.