The United Kingdom will increase defense spending by more than 58,000 million euros by 2030

The UK Defense Secretary, Ben Wallace, stated in an interview with the British newspaper ‘The Telegraph’ this Saturday that the prime minister, Liz Trusswill increase defense spending in at least £52 billion (58,000 billion euros).

Wallace has indicated that Britain will increase the size of its military for the first time since the Cold War, under orders from Truss in response to Russian aggression.

In this sense, it has revealed that the Prime Minister has made it clear that the Government’s priority is to carry out the campaign promise to increase defense spending to 3% of GDP.

“One of her clear priorities as prime minister is that we are going to invest and spend the money,” she announced, before explaining that this budget was worth £100bn by 2030an increase of £52 billion over the current sum.

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The increase in spending on the Armed Forces to 3% by the end of the decade represents a “huge” increase and contrasts with the trend since the 1990s, he explained.

“It’s very likely that we will grow the Army, but it may not be the places where your parlor generals want you to go, because what we desperately need is, for example, invest in our intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capacity”has nuanced

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Therefore, Wallace has ensured that we must learn from the “lessons” of the war in Ukraine. In this sense, he has asserted that the important thing is to be able to shoot down drones, because if not, “we will be vulnerable.”

“The reality is that we will work with the Treasury to ensure that we have a budget that grows to meet the threat and our ambitions,” he said.