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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Labour’s defence budget ‘won’t touch the sides’, Starmer is warned

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned even spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence won’t be enough amid an increasingly turbulent global landscape and pressure from Donald Trump for Europe to bolster its own defences.

The government has pledged to spend 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence, but has not given details on how or when this figure will be reached.

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