UK: PM To Meet NATO's Rutte 9 June To Discuss Def Spending
Jun-05 11:04
Downing St. spox has confirmed that PM Sir Keir Starmer will meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday, 9 June, to discuss how members of the alliance can boost defence spending. The UK sits in something of a difficult position at present with regard to its military expenditure.
- While one of the largest overall spenders in the alliance, and a nuclear power, the gov't has only spoken so far of its "ambition" of hitting 3% of GDP being spent on defence by 2034 (end of the next parliament).
- Indeed, the Strategic Defence Review announced earlier in the week was swiftly overwhelmed by headlines saying that the UK would be "forced" to raise this to 3.5% in order to keep the US on side.
- With Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves to announce the conclusions of the spending review on 11 June (setting departmental spending for the coming years), there could be implications for other areas of gov't spending should the gov't be forced into greater investment in defence sooner rather than later.
- This 3.5% figure feeds into the '3.5%+1.5%' target that is now likely to be agreed to by national leaders at the 24-25 June NATO summit (see 'NATO: US' Hegseth Signals Backing Of Mooted 3.5%+1.5% Of GDP Def Spend Split', 11:37BST).
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