Cabinet minister Tom Tugendhat on Monday insisted that military spending must rise to 2.5% of GDP “now” after the Budget failed to earmark significantly more on defence, but denied a rift with Rishi Sunak.
The Security Minister defended an apparent breach of Cabinet discipline 48 hours after Jeremy Hunt’s Budget last week, when he and Indo-Pacific Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan issued a 1,100-word comment piece.
