US EditionUK vows to spend 5% of GDP on national security by 2035
- At the NATO summit in The Hague, UK leader Keir Starmer committed to increasing national security and defence expenditure to 5% of GDP by 2035.
- This commitment comes in response to demands from the U.S. leadership for NATO members to raise their defence budgets beyond the previous 2% goal amid escalating international security challenges.
- Current UK defence spending stands at around 2.3% of GDP with plans to increase to 2.6% by 2027 and ambitions to reach 3% in the next parliamentary term, supported by a new National Security Strategy emphasizing economic and technological resilience.
- The 5% commitment includes 3.5% on core defence, plus 1.5% allocated to security infrastructure like cyber defence and border protection, which Mark Rutte described as 'an ambitious, historic quantum leap'.
- This funding rise aims to strengthen UK self-reliance against threats such as Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and cyber risks, but it raises questions about budget allocations and potential impacts on welfare and public services.
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UK to raise defence and security spending to 5% by 2035 as Starmer warns of wartime threats
Starmer pledged to boost overall defence and security spending to 5% of economic output by 2035 to meet a Nato target, with his government warning it must "actively prepare" for war at home for the first time in years
·Mumbai, India
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