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Kemi Badenoch Urges PM to Boost Defence Spending

CosmicTaco · 2025-02-23T13:12:47.226140+05:30

- Kemi Badenoch has called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to cut welfare and foreign aid to increase defence spending. - She warns that Putin's Russia poses an existential threat to Europe and urges immediate action. - Badenoch suggests reallocating 0.5% of GDP from overseas development to defence and security. - She criticizes Labour for abandoning the 2030 target for defence spending and calls for a new timeframe. - Former Army chief Lord Dannatt also warns that failing to increase defence spending could consign Sir Keir's Premiership to the 'dustbin of history'. Source: [Express](https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2018028/starmer-told-stop-dithering-get), [Mail Online](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14425523/Kemi-Badenoch-Prime-Minister-foreign-aid-pour-money-defence.html)

Kemi Badenoch has called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to cut welfare and foreign aid to increase defence spending.
She warns that Putin's Russia poses an existential threat to Europe and urges immediate action.
Badenoch suggests reallocating 0.5% of GDP from overseas development to defence and security.
She criticizes Labour for abandoning the 2030 target for defence spending and calls for a new timeframe.
Former Army chief Lord Dannatt also warns that failing to increase defence spending could consign Sir Keir's Premiership to the 'dustbin of history'.

Source: Express, Mail Online