Starmer vows to ‘spend more’ on UK defence but other areas face cuts

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Sir Care has promised to “spend more” for the defense of the starmer, even Treasury asked other departments to model other categories to model the budget up to 11 percent in the coming months.

“One part of my message to our European allies is that we all have been able to take both affordability and cost and funding,” the Prime Minister of the UK said on Monday. “It includes the United Kingdom, which is why I promised to spend more.”

Starmar has promised to set a “path” to increase defense expenses from 2.5 percent of GDP, but refuses to say when that goal will be achieved.

His problem – Sharing with other European leaders gathered in Paris on Monday Crisis meeting with Ukraine – Is it the public financial already under pressure at the breaking points.

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves wants to delay by about £ 5bn-£ 6bn-additional annual expenditure by 2.5 per cent to ease the pressure on public money before the expected elections in 2021.

Starmer Defense Head told the head that he would end up to 2.5 percent target, he would not fulfill their demands to increase $ 4 billion worth of expenditure, Such as published By the Financial Times.

In a prolonged scream mark on public financing, Treasury has asked most of the government departments to model three separate situations in the upcoming expenditure review.

Bloomberg’s first image first image starts from 2-11 percent from 2-11 percent during the three-year expenditure review period. Practice is a standard treasury process that forces ministers to identify possible cuts.

Starma has promised that “will not return to stiffness”, but there is an increasing concern throughout the Whitehol that the cost review will create a fatal cut in many cases. The review will end in June.

As the economy is flat, the reeves problems have grown even more by annoying data that has deleted $ 10 billion cushion against breaking its own financial rules.

Referring to the Treasury modeling practice for potential cuts, a person involved in the expense review process says: “If you do not want a huge cut in actual services, it’s completely unrealistic.

“But we are all taking modeling seriously because we can see that all the headrooms they have consumed have no money. Although it is about to be catastrophic. “

An official inherent said that the circumstances of the cuts presented in the categories are “every expense that the kind of things you see when the review starts”.

Treasury said: “All the Chancellor’s departments have been asked to provide 5 percent of their current budget savings and skills as part of the first zero-based expenditure review within 17 years, and every pound of government expenditure is being interrogated, the route has to get the best value for waste and taxpayers. “

It has been added that the scheduled expenditure situations in the government departments are not the final allocation.