Defence spending: Is 2.5% of GDP going to be enough?

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps discusses the prime minister’s vow to boost defence spending to 2.5% GDP by 2030 and the Rwanda migration policy.

Former British army officer Colonel Simon Diggins told Sky News that spending should be closer to 3%. Mr Shapps says ‘the global defence industrial base hasn’t expanded quickly enough to deal with the enormous requirements in Ukraine’.

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