A former Nato chief yesterday urged Labour and the Conservatives to agree a package of 'emergency treatment' for the armed forces.
A former Nato chief yesterday urged Labour and the Conservatives to agree a package of 'emergency treatment' for the armed forces, as he warned the election campaign was ignoring the parlous state of Britain's defences.
Rishi Sunak has sought to make defence an election issue, highlighting the fact that Sir Keir Starmer has failed to match his pledge to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030. Sir Richard, Nato's former deputy commander in Europe, said the armed forces had been 'decimated' in recent years to the extent that the Army would struggle to provide 5,000 troops for serious war fighting
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