Britain needs to review its defense budget due to the increasing threat level from Russia. About it in the broadcast of the TV channel weather Defense Minister Ben Wallace, who is in Brussels to meet with his NATO counterparts,
“I’m very candid here that the threat is increasing, and … when the threat increases, we need to reconsider how much we’re willing to spend,” he said.
He noted that he is waging a “hard fight with the Treasury” regarding the increase in defense spending.
Wallace also denied reports that he would resign if he didn’t get the money he wanted. “We are not talking about resignation or anything. “It’s about protecting against a threat,” the British Defense Secretary said.
Earlier it was learned that the British Minister of Defense Ben Wallace. spoke to increase the kingdom’s military budget by 20% over the next two years. Wallace asked Treasury Secretary Jeremy Hunt to increase defense sector spending from £8 billion ($9.6 billion) to £11 billion ($13.2 billion).
On February 11, Conservative Tobias Ellwood, Chairman of the British Parliament’s House of Commons Defense Committee, in an interview with the Financial Times declarationthat in the event of war the kingdom’s armed forces can only last for five days.