Labour would boost defence spending and the UK’s nuclear deterrent programme, Keir Starmer has said amid mounting warnings about Britain’s “eroded” Armed Forces.
Defence is “the number one issue for any government” facing “rising global threats and growing Russian aggression”, the party leader told i news. He vowed to match the Conservatives’ pledge to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, up from just under 2.3%, “as soon as resources allow that to happen”.
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