Most of Claimed Defence Spending Increase 'Is Not Even Real', Says Ex-SAS Commander

Labour's defence plan 'not even real' as ex-SAS commander accuses ministers of trying to 'push defence off the main issue'

A former SAS commander has slammed Labour’s Defence Investment Plan as “not even real”.Speaking to GB News, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Williams accused ministers of resorting to creative accounting to shift the issue of Britain's military readiness off the political agenda.To that end, the ex-22 Squadron commander suggested the pledge of an additional £15billion for defence over the next four years fell well short of matching the scale of the ch…

Most of claimed defence spending increase 'is not even real', says ex-SAS commander

Former SAS officer Richard Williams has claimed that most of the additional £15 billion of funding for defence announced by the Prime Minister “is not even real”. Williams, a former Commanding Officer of 22 SAS, told The Camilla Tominey Show on GB News: “Everybody that’s serious about defence realises that it’s not enough, and of the 15 billion extra that they’ve promised, with the majority of it coming from a combination of savings and efficien…

Starmer Lied: Britain Is Cutting £11 Billion from Frontline Defence

The new Defence Investment Plan delivers almost nothing for our armed forces in the near term Ian Proud, The Peacemonger, Jul 02, 2026 The United Kingdom is in effect going to spend up to £11 billion less per year on the day-to-day running of its armed forces under Keir Starmer’s Defence Investment Plan — and that’s before we even take inflation into account. Despite the apparent uplift in spending toward 2.7% of GDP by 2029, the UK will get no …

The UK's £298B Defence Investment Plan At A Glance: 6th Generation Force Design or Creative Accounting?

The long awaited Defence Investment Plan has finally been published for public viewing and it seemingly generates more questions for UK Defence than it answers. In one of his last acts as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer has released the UK’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP), cementing the largest sustained funding increase for the UK’s Armed Forces since the Cold War. Questions however remain as to whether the document and th…