🏛️ Politics 13h ago · James Schneider

The Great British defence con

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An invoice is arriving for British defence. In Westminster, the argument is how to pay it. Spend more, says Lord Robertson, former Nato chief. Spend faster. Britain is “underprepared”, “under-insured”, “not safe”. Keir Starmer promises to lift defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP, with Nato’s new targets pushing it higher still: 3.5 per cent on the military, 5 per cent on “security” by 2035. The number rises. The plan does not exist. No one can yet say, in public and in detail, what this money

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