{"id":150844,"date":"2025-06-02T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150844\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T01:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:11:10","slug":"uk-seeks-to-send-a-message-to-moscow-as-it-outlines-higher-defence-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150844\/","title":{"rendered":"UK seeks to send a message to Moscow as it outlines higher defence spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                            By\u00a0<b>Euronews<\/b>                      with\u00a0<b>AP<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            02\/06\/2025 &#8211; 1:58 GMT+2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The UK is about to see the biggest increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War as it seeks to send \u201ca message to Moscow,\u201d the British defence secretary John Healey said on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Healey said plans for defence spending will be enough to transform the country\u2019s military, though he said he does not expect the number of soldiers \u2013 currently at a historic low \u2013 to rise until the early 2030s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The British government aims for defence spending to hit 2.5% of the country\u2019s national income by 2027 \u2013 with Healey saying plans are still on track to reach this target. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is \u201cno doubt\u201d this figure will hit 3% by the 2030s, Healey believes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Westminster will on Monday respond to a strategic defence review overseen by Healey and former NATO secretary general George Robertson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This review is expected to be the most consequential since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and make a series of recommendations advising the UK on how it can deal with emerging threats both on the military front and in the cyberspace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will reportedly commit \u00a31.5 billion (\u20ac1.78 billion) to build six new factories to make munitions to revive the UK\u2019s industrial base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine highlighted deficiencies in the West\u2019s ability to procure weapons \u2013 with UK military officers warning about the nation\u2019s low amount of munitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Euronews with\u00a0AP Published on 02\/06\/2025 &#8211; 1:58 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT The UK is about to see the biggest increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,17959,393,4884,1144,336,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-150844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-defense-minister","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-russias-invasion-of-ukraine","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114611112081131386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}