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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Emily Atkinson

Britain’s defence spending to double to £100bn next year, says Ben Wallace

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Britain’s defence spending will double to £100bn next year after Liz Truss’s pledge to raise the UK military budget to 3 per cent of GDP, Ben Wallace has said.

The British armed forces are “actually going to grow” for the first time since the Cold War ended after decades of “shrinking budgets”, the UK defence secretary said in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph.

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