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Mar 30 2022

Labour calls for increase in defence spending

Russia’s invasion demonstrates significant new threats lay much closer to home, says shadow defence secretary

Labour is calling for “a post 9/11” style increase in defence spending in response to the Ukraine crisis following forecasts that the budget could fall by up to 3% a year this parliament despite the outbreak of a war in Europe.

The party declined to put a firm figure on the commitment sought, but, in the decade after 9/11, defence spending increased by more than £10bn a year in real terms, partly to pay for costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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