The move follows the resignation of the UK defense secretary and a growing row over insufficient funding for the armed forces.
The UK will divert money from other government departments to increase the defense budget, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said.
He made the remarks at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on Tuesday – days after Defense Secretary John Healey and Armed Forces Minister Al Carns resigned over the government’s military spending plans.
”I have taken the decision to reallocate money from other departments,” Starmer told reporters, adding that discussions were under way with the new defense secretary on how the money would be spent and which capabilities would be prioritized.
Every government department has been tasked with finding cuts to fund the military, with Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy confirming on Sunday that cabinet ministers have been told to look for further reductions. The move has drawn criticism from some MPs, who question why military funding is treated as a priority while departments covering health, housing, and social care face cuts.
Starmer said military spending had risen from 2.3% to 2.6% of GDP, describing it as “the biggest increase since the 1980s,” and would amount to £270 billion ($360 billion) during the current parliament.
However, fact-checking organization Full Fact said the figure referred to the Defense Ministry’s projected overall spending rather than additional new funding.
Military officials have warned that operational activity may have to be scaled back without additional funding, while continuing to cite an alleged threat from Russia, which they claim is “probing, challenging, and testing our defenses.” Chief of the Defense Staff Richard Knighton told lawmakers that exercises and deployments would need to be “dialed back” if resources did not increase.
In his resignation letter, Healey complained that Starmer had been “unable, and the Treasury unwilling, to commit the resources” needed for sweeping military reforms and to raise defense spending to 3% of GDP by 2030 in line with Britain’s NATO obligations.
The Defense Investment Plan, due last week, has been delayed by the resignations, piling new pressure on Starmer at a time when he is already facing mounting calls to step down after Labour’s poor local election performance.
The funding row has coincided with fresh problems for the Royal Navy. Critics say years of underfunding have left Britain’s armed forces overstretched despite London’s ambitions to project military power overseas.
Earlier this month, HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy’s co-flagship, was unable to join a NATO exercise after a technical fault was discovered. Its sister ship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, was also forced to withdraw from NATO maneuvers in 2024.
Media reports also said all of Britain’s Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarines were stuck in port awaiting maintenance or repairs, leaving the Royal Navy without a deployable hunter-killer submarine.
The UK must be borrowing money like there’ is no tomorrow. Just like mess Jacinda Arden left us in, the incoming UK government will have little option but to place the country into austerity.
The UK police policy is to protect immigrants over nationals has removed all trust between citizen and state. The UK police are an embarrassment to themselves. Commonsense has left the building. Replaced by harmful directives from government officials.
New Zealanders have seen the worst behaviour from our own police force. Police call themselves a service. Well its not a service when police violently attack sleeping men woman and children in tents. It is a force. A man protecting his children from state policy and a drug taking mother is sensible. Being shot by police isnt a service, its a force.
The plan is to destroy the economy, traditional family, business. To allow immigrants from places, like Somalia to run rampant in the streets. To arrest the victim and ignore the criminal.
Unless your government or its paid forces start performing like protectors of victims, including the poisonous substances called vaccines , civil war and revolution is underway. Ireland has taken matters into their own hands. I see that systematically spreading throughout the UK. I see no future for the immigrants in the UK. I see justice being enforced and restored by the citizens of the UK. Not the police force.
New Zealanders haven’t forgotten the absolute nonsense towards Barry young. His only intention was to raise the alarm and to expose those harmful medicines. .Just like the last government, this government hasn’t recognised or taken any responsibility for the deaths and serious harm caused. Hard to believe ACC has paid out millions to victims and yet the government is still pushing vaccines. Such behaviour mirrors the UK policy to protect the criminal and punish the victim.
It is nothing more than that complete lunacy to give millions of dollars to gang members. Another obvious example of stupidity from government.
I dream of a government led by Winston Peters. Stamping out insane policies and nutters like the voting rights. for unelected maori. The wasteful spending from local authorities. Removing all decision, making from councils. Dont let that Hipkins anywhere near our tax dollars again.
NZF is part of the current government. Have things gotten better over the last three years? NO. Try a new reformist party instead. Its less risky than voting for more of the same.
WHY THE F*** IS THIS MAN STILL IN OFFICE WITH HIS J3WI$H WIFE COMMANDING HIM???
The British Parliament dragging it’s feet in ousting him??
https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/1mr0fnk/how_likely_is_it_for_starmer_to_be_removed_from/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK68yyrKUOA
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UceIKX9uGoWw
The end result of Noahide Law under Bolshevism-
https://www.bitchute.com/video/sGGfMsclPInE
What must be done?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7uFsf9_NBE&list=RDl7uFsf9_NBE&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYvGaCXV8w&list=RDpMYvGaCXV8w&start_radio=1
An absolute clown show, mirroring the inept, questionable nonsense, we have seen here. Happy to throw money at the military for a threat they created and could easily resolve but wont spend on things that matter, like healthcare, social services and education. Time to stop voting for globalists.