UK faces ‘greatest war risk of a lifetime’ says defence secretary

Wes Streeting has warned Putin is ‘constantly testing’ Britain and Nato’s defences and called for national resilience to be stepped up (Picture: Jack Taylor/Pool Reuters via AP)

The UK faces its ‘greatest risk’ of war in a lifetime, with the Kremlin posing the largest threat to national security, Wes Streeting has said.

The defence secretary used threats from Russia and Putin to justify what he called ‘the biggest increase in defence spending’ since the end of the Cold War.

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