MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

Keir Starmer could ramp up the UK's defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain's armed forces.

Starmer told this weekend's Munich Security Conference, "Time and again, leaders have looked the other way, only re-arming when disaster is upon them. This time, it must be different. Because all of the warning signs are there."

Those warning signs are emanating from Russia, he said. "Its hyper-threats extend across our continent, not just threatening our security, but tearing at our social order."

He argued "We must spend more, deliver more, and coordinate more."

Today the BBC reported the UK Prime Minister was considering a "significant increase" in defense spending. Rather than boosting the defense budget to 3 percent of GDP in the next Parliament, the broadcasting corp said it was told of proposals to achieve this by the end of the current ...