UK will likely be compelled to extend defence spending to three.5% to maintain US on aspect, Sky News sources say

Sky News understands the UK will likely be compelled this month to agree to extend defence spending to three.5% of nationwide earnings inside a decade – as a part of a NATO push to rearm and hold the US on aspect.

That’s regardless of Sir Keir Starmer declining to commit, within the wake of yesterday’s Strategic Defence Review, to rising spending to three% – as a substitute insisting it stays an goal for the following Parliament.

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