PM announces plan to increase spending to £87bn a year by 2030 on visit to Poland
Rishi Sunak, left, Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, and the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, at a military barracks in Warsaw, Poland.Rishi Sunak, left, Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, and the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, at a military barracks in Warsaw, Poland.has announced on a visit to Poland, as he warned the UK had to be equipped to meet the challenges of an increasingly dangerous world.
“In a world that is the most dangerous it has been since the end of the cold war, we cannot be complacent. As our adversaries align, we must do more to defend our country, our interests, and our values,” he said. Boris Johnson pledged at a Nato summit in June 2022 to increase UK military spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product by the end of the decade as part of a strengthening of Nato defences in response to the threat from Russia.
It would also cover an additional £500m in military funding for Ukraine from Treasury reserves, which was announced by Sunak before the trip and takes the total to £3bn this financial year.
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