Starmer Rejects Charge of Complacency on UK Military Spending

Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected a high-profile critique of his government’s commitment to increase defense spending, promising to publish “as soon as possible” the UK’s long overdue military investment plan.

Starmer was pressed during his weekly question session in Parliament on Wednesday to respond to former NATO Secretary General George Robertson, who has accused the government of “corrosive complacency” about the state of Britain’s armed forces. The prime minister has come under increasing pressure to raise defense spending, as well as publish the investment plan, which had been expected in the fall.