This is the Labour government that increased defense spending to the highest sustained spend since the Cold War.

In February 2025 the government committed to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and described it, in its own official announcement, as 'the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War'. Starmer is repeating the government's own framing of that commitment.

▸ GOV.UK / Prime Minister's Office — Prime Minister sets out biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War

Checked Wed 1 Jul, 09:53 · Broadcast: PMQs: Prime Minister's Questions - 29 April 2026

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