British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced plans to increase the UK’s defence and security expenditure to 5% of GDP by ...

Britain will become a “defence industrial superpower”, Rachel Reeves said as she set out plans to spend 2.5% of the UK’s ...

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, ...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves says defence spending will increase to 2.6% of GDP. BAE, Rolls-Royce, and Babcock stands to benefit from it.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has said any further rise to the UK’s budget for defense won’t come until the next ...

Britain should double its defence spending to respond to global threats, a former UK defence chief has suggested. Lord Stirrup, who served as head of the Armed Forces between 2006 and 2010 ...

The government has promised to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by ... after 2029. But the UK’s Nato allies are expected also to push for a fresh target of 3.5 per cent, with ...

Citing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, London has announced it will increase its defence budget to 2.5 percent of UK gross domestic product by 2027 -- and up to 3.0 percent by 2034, helped by ...

Ciaran Jenkins: It’s an ambition not a commitment from the UK prime minister to spend 3% of national income on defence ... we were spending 3, 4, 5% of GDP. So I think we have to recalculate ...

For UK armed forces, the story of the last sixty years has been one of “doing more with less”. As spending on health and social security has gone up, defence spending – as a share of ...

RACHEL Reeves will pump an extra £2billion into defence spending in a bid to boost sluggish UK growth. The Chancellor will bolster Armed Forces funding to try to offset gloomy economic forecasts ...

Former head of the Armed Forces Lord Stirrup is calling for rapidly increased defence spending (House of Lords/UK Parliament/PA) Britain should double its defence spending to respond to global ...