Trump’s return means UK must swiftly find a way to increase defence spending | Peter Walker

<p>Under Biden, the move could wait until the UK worked out how to meet its 2.5% GDP commitment. Not now</p><p>It has been one of the few political constants in a turbulent period for British politics: an agreement that defence spending really should increase. But in the second era of Donald Trump, what was a consensual background hum has suddenly become an ear-splitting alarm.</p><p>European Nato members, the UK among them, have long been used to US presidents urging them to spend 2% of GDP at a bare minimum, something only a minority of them nonetheless manage.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/16/trumps-return-means-uk-must-swiftly-find-a-way-to-increase-defence-spending">Continue reading...</a>