Two serving ministers have called for a “much greater pace” of investment in defence spending, putting pressure on Rishi Sunak a day after the Commons’ spending watchdog warned that the Ministry of Defence had no credible plan to fund the military capabilities the government wants.
The Foreign Office minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Home Office minister Tom Tugendhat said in a post on LinkedIn that the UK needed to “lead the way” by increasing defence and security spending to at least 2.5% of gross domestic product, a measure of the size of the economy.
