Sunak Announces Defence Spending Will Increase to 2.5 Percent by 2030

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called it the biggest increase in defence spending in a generation, pledging an additional £75 billion over the next six years.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a press conference at the Warsaw Armoured Brigade in Warsaw during Rishi Sunak's visit to Poland and Germany on April 23, 2024. Henry Nicholls/PA Wire

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has committed the UK to spending 2.5 percent of its GDP on defence by 2030, the biggest increase in defence spending in a generation.

The prime minister made the pledge during a visit to Poland on Tuesday, confirming the defence budget would receive an additional £75 billion over the next six years as he warned that the world was “the most dangerous it has been since the end of the Cold War.”