President Donald Trump greets Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer in October, 2025Keir Starmer is preparing for a dressing down from Donald Trump at his last Nato summit as prime minister over the government’s underwhelming defence spending plans.
The PM will fly to Ankara in Turkey a week after unveiling the long-delayed Defence Investment Plan (DIP).
Although it contained an extra £15 billion for the armed forces over the next four years, nearly one-third of it is unfunded, while there was no pathway for how the government plans to hit its target of spending 3.5% of national income on defence by 2035.
Starmer insisted that, once security spending i...
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