Britain to spend 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2030, Rishi Sunak announces

Rishi Sunak has promised to boost Britain’s defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030 – despite critics raising concerns about how he will pay for the promise.

At a press conference alongside Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, the prime minister promised an extra £75bn in defence spending over the next six years.

He warned that the world is “the most dangerous it has been since the end of the Cold War”, and pledged to put Britain’s defence industry “on a war footing”.

And Mr Sunak repeated a promise made by Boris Johnson in 2022 to for defence spending this decade.