British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has at last presented his government's Defence Investment Plan, a spending programme that aims to ensure Britain’s military future by raising defence investments to £80 billion (€92.8 billion) a year by 2029.
Building and buying stealth fighter jets, submarines and warheads are all on the menu, with £5 billion (€5.8 million) allocated solely for the development of drones, a move Starmer hailed as “the largest ever UK investment in this technology”.