Keir Starmer joins calls for military budget to increase to 2.5% of GDP

A Labour government would aim to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP while doubling down on the UK’s nuclear deterrent, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has revealed.

Starmer said that defence was “the number one issue for any government” and admitted that a more dangerous world made it necessary to spend more on the military.