Keir Starmer urged to use defence spending boost to revive UK manufacturing
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to increase UK defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by April 2027, funded by a cut to the aid budget.
- Rishi Sunak suggested that welfare spending should be cut to support increased defence spending, stating it is growing at a very rapid rate.
- Russian defence spending stands at 7.1 percent of GDP, compared to Britain's 2.3 percent, with Putin's spending nearly doubling since the invasion of Ukraine.
- Critics claim that current European efforts are insufficient to counter Russia's actions and that a peace deal might be forced upon Ukraine.
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SIR Keir Starmer should scrap net zero plans to bolster the public purse, MPs demanded yesterday. Senior politicians called for the PM to ditch proposals to create a state-owned renewable energy company. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to scrap plans for Net Zero and use the funds elsewherePA The freed-up cash would be used to boost defence spending and ensure Treasury books stay balanced. It comes after Downing Street yesterday d…
Allegra Stratton: How High Will Starmer Go?
The Readout has recently started sounding like an auction house, and today we go higher again. Hold tight for another stomach-churning loop-the-loop as suspicions in Whitehall emerge into the open: that the government might need to spend more again on defense, even going above the once outlandish target of 3% of GDP over the next decade that Keir Starmer outlined last week.
Events, dear boy, events: Starmer's defence challenge could be his biggest opportunity
In July 2020, the then chief executive of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan, gave a speech to the Whitehall & Industry Group titled: ‘“Events, Dear Boy”: managing incidents before they become crises’. He told listeners: “When Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was asked what was the greatest challenge for a statesman, he replied: ‘Events, dear boy, events’. The same is true for most leaders and organisations. Events happen. When they do a lot…
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