Defence Chief Demands More Money for Weapons

Britain’s deputy chief of defence staff has called for an urgent increase in funding for weapons, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was reluctant to commit to a timeline for reaching a defence spending target of 2.5 percent of GDP. Speaking during a hearing of the Commons Defence Committee on Monday, Mr. Sunak said: “We’ve said we will do that when the conditions allow, but it’s worth saying that defence spending is already on an upward trajectory and we’re already due to hit 2.3 percent of GDP on defence spending. “What the last year or so shows is that we need to collectively up our game when it comes to defence industrial production. We’re making the investments, we’re signing the contracts and I think we can look forward to a very significant increase over the coming months and years.”...