UK will fund rise in defence spending by cutting aid to developing nations
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She asked if he also planned to raise taxes or borrow more to fund Britain’s extra military spending, to which the prime minister replied: “No.” Paying for military expansion, seen as necessary following Russia’s invasion ofMr Starmer said cutting the amount of aid Britain provides to developing nations to fund the rise in defence spending was “not a decision I wanted or am happy to make”.
The room upstairs in the building on Old Queen Street, just across from the Houses of Parliament, was packed beyond its comfortable capacity for her speech. She urged the Labour government to adopt an approach of “realism” in international affairs, focused more on its national interest, while maintaining its Nato membership as a bedrock and remaining close to the US.
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