Charities and aid organisations have criticised the Prime Minister’s “reckless” decision to cut the aid budget in order to increase defence spending, labelling it a “betrayal of the world’s most vulnerable”.
Sir Keir Starmer announced a dramatic increase in defence spending from its current 2.3% to 2.5% by 2027 in response to “tyrant” Vladimir Putin and amid uncertainty over the US’s commitment to European security.
