Love him or loathe him, Rishi Sunak may have just saved your life by ramping up defence spending...

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After months of vapid promises to increase spending “when economic conditions allow”, he finally set out plans to boost the UK’s defence budget to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030.In the tinderbox world we live in, it likely means two things.

More money for defence means less for something else, such as health or education or the services people rely on.Alarm bells over Britain’s defence have been ringing out for yearsSir Keir Starmer Ministers revealed this week that Conservative spending on defence plunged from 2.47 per cent of GDP in 2010 to 2.28 per cent last year — after a low of 2.03 per cent in 2015.The extra cash includes £10billion over the next decade to beef up ammunition stockpiles and fund the factories Britain would need to ramp up production in a shooting war.

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