London | UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will vow to spend 5 per cent of British economic output on security by 2035, embracing an ambitious NATO target sought by US President Donald Trump without providing a path on how to get there.
After weeks of refusing to be drawn on the matter, the premier was scheduled to make the new commitment on Tuesday at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s summit in The Hague, The Netherlands, according to a statement from his office. There, leaders were due to adopt the alliance’s new 5 per cent goal, up from 2 per cent currently, which includes 3.5 per cent to be spent on core defence and 1.5 per cent on related security expenditure.
