British Army soldiers took part in Nato training exercises in Poland last year An increase in spending 2.5% of GDP on UK defence will certainly help Britain’s Armed Forces – which have ...

We’ve written before about UK defence spending as a proportion of GDP. In April 2024, the then-Conservative government committed to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030. It said this figure would ...

UK defence spending will be increased to 2.5% of the country’s GDP in 2027, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced. The level of defence spending will then, if Starmer has his way, be increased to ...

However, this only represents Ministry of Defence (MOD) spending. When comparing the UK’s defence spending with other countries, a more common measure is ‘NATO-qualified defence expenditure’, which, ...

The UK currently spends around 2.3% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defence ... did not have a detailed breakdown of the source and referred to the Treasury, which has not responded at the time ...

Starmer said on Tuesday that as the UK faces a “period of profound change” amid overseas conflicts, including a war in Ukraine, he has committed to increasing defence spending to 2.5 percent ...

This week, Germany announced a fiscal revolution. Europe is finally listening to US entreaties to spend more on its own ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday he would increase annual defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and target a 3% level last seen just after the Cold War, a signal to U.S. President Donald ...

Approval among Britons for the UK to increase defense spending has risen, even if it means more burden on taxpayers, an Ipsos poll showed.

The meeting saw a catastrophic breakdown in communications between ... The prime minister also announced that defence spending in the UK will increase to 2.6% of GDP by 2027, injecting a further ...

The share price in a defence firm - which has a large site in the county - has hit an all-time high as global tensions rise.

Defence spending is set to increase as a portion of ... Where has the £13.4 billion figure come from? The UK currently spends around 2.3% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defence, this ...