The UK’s Conservative backbenchers have called on the ministers to increase the country’s defence spending in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It comes after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said spending 2 percent of GDP on defence “must be a floor, not a ceiling,” referring to NATO countries’ baseline spending commitments.
In a report submitted to the government, members of the 1922 Defence Committee said the government should increase defence spending at a time regarded by many as “the beginning of the New Cold War.”
“Across the Conservative backbenches, there is a wide consensus that the Russian invasion of Ukraine requires an increase in defence spending alongside a broad reassessment of manpower and capabilities,” committee chair John Baron said in a statement.
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