UK defence spending will increase to 2 5% of GDP by 2030, Sunak pledges
Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase defence spending by 2.5% of GDP by 2023.
The prime minister made the pledge to become the “biggest defence power in Europe“.
He announced the measures in a joint press conference with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg at a military base in Poland.
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