Chancellor Rishi Sunak allegedly ignored a Ministry of Defence warning that the UK could fail to meet its Nato spending commitments by 2025.<\/p>\n
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace sounded the alarm over a real-terms cut in security spending in a letter to the Chancellor ahead of March\u2019s spring statement, The Sun reported.<\/p>\n
Mr Wallace was said to have warned Mr Sunak that Britain would not meet the 2% spending commitment because of rising inflation and the move to arm Ukraine\u2019s battle against Russia.<\/p>\n
Mr Wallace was said to have warned Mr Sunak that Britain would not meet the 2% spending commitment (Peter Byrne\/PA)<\/p>\n
(PA Wire)<\/p>\n
The Chancellor did not increase defence spending in his statement and the Treasury did not deny that he failed to respond to his Cabinet colleague\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n
A Treasury spokeswoman said: \u201cThis Government has provided the largest increase in defence spending since the Cold War, increasing the defence budget by \u00a324 billion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was an exceptional uplift in defence spending and the decision to prioritise taxpayers\u2019 money on our security was the right one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chancellor Rishi Sunak allegedly ignored a Ministry of Defence warning that the UK could fail to meet its Nato spending commitments by 2025. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace sounded the alarm over a real-terms cut in security spending in a letter to the Chancellor ahead of March\u2019s spring statement, The Sun reported. Mr Wallace was said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n