Nato's apparent swipe at UK's defence spending is another headache for Jeremy Hunt
into the UK’s defence and foreign policy is due to be published in the run-up to the Chancellor’s first Budget, with expectations that it will clearly spell out the increased risk to the UK from countries including Russia and China., a historian and a member of the No 10 policy unit, focused on the Government’s new “tilt” towards the Indo-Pacific region.
But there is likely to be a clash between the Treasury and the Ministry of Defence over the size of any boost in spending, withunderstood to be demanding between £9bn and £11bn over the next two years just to put the defence budget back to where it was before rampant inflation ate away at resources. Mr Stoltenberg said ahead of a Nato meeting of defence ministers in Brussels on Tuesday that war in Ukraine is “consuming an enormous amount of ammunition”.
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