Former Royal Navy chief Lord West welcomes Labour’s commitment to nuclear submarines but claims the UK needs raise military spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP immediately given ‘dangerous world’
In February Sir Keir Starmer visited a ‘cemetery’ of destroyed civilian cars in the town of Irpin, near Kyiv, Ukraine One of the UK’s most senior military figures has said Sir Keir Starmer “has missed an opportunity” to show voters thaton Friday, Starmer said his party would match the government’s “ambition” to increase defence spending from 2.3 per cent of GDP to 2.
“He then should have said that after Labour’s defence review that defence spending could rise further. I think that’s how he should have put it.” “The nuclear deterrent is expensive, but it’s absolutely vital and needed,” said the Labour leader. “It is the foremost protection that we have because, as the name suggests, it is the deterrence against the highest form of threat that our country could face. So that’s why we commit to it.”
Four new 153-metre Dreadnought submarines were not ordered until 2016, two years before the Vanguard class was due to end their service.
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