Former defense secretary Ben Wallace Is branded Labor claims This has promoted military expenses that “A Con” has been raised after concerns how the data is being calculated.
The row’s split is exploded Rachel Reeves’ Review on Wednesday where he was proud That defense spending GDP will be 2.6 percent of the domestic product. But this included the first time safety and intelligence expense.
Prime Minister earlier this year Sir ker stormer Controversially reduced international assistance to promote defense spending up to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2027, which was two years before the schedule. At that time he also promised that it would increase by 3 percent by 2034.
However, since then 3 percent of the pledge is eligible for “allowing economic conditions”, while the new calculation at defense spending has left the question whether Boost has been claimed earlier.
As spending reviewIn 2027/28, the defense is £ 71bn and security and intelligence is £ 5.1bn, formed jointly 76.1BN, which was quoted as “2.6 percent of GDP”.
However, Tories mentioned that security and intelligence elements are equal to 0.186 percent of that total GDP number, which suggests defense expenses unlike 0.1 percent that would be below 2.5 percent.
According to some estimates, there was nothing in review of spending in reviews about spending for the Chagos deal.
Sir Ben Walse, who honored the former Tory Defense Secretary, who criticized his government not to invest enough in the army, posted: “As Rhel Reves has tried to choose all of us with his defense GDP definition, it is worth reading NATO guidelines that can count.
“If you claim other forces/police or intelligence, you can only do this, if, in such cases, expenses are only involved in proportion to the forces who are trained in military strategies, equipped as a military force, can work under direct military authority in campaigns deployed.”
He said: “I would like to stay in the room when someone tells the workforce of Mi6, GCHQ and Mi5, they are going to go through military training together.”
Ms. Reeves was challenged on LBC as to whether her new calculation was “trying to pull wool on people’s eyes.”
He replied: “No. Our commitment is to reach 2.5 percent. We have not included all intelligence expenses. We have [included some] Under the definition of NATO because clearly intelligence is an important part of our rescue. ,
However, it was reported that according to his guidelines, NATO defined defense spending as “a payment made by a national government as specially as his armed forces, colleagues or coalitions to meet the needs of those of those people.”
Explanation was not accepted by political opponents.
Tory Shadow Defense Secretary James Cartaliz said: “Labor promised to spend 2.5 percent of the GDP on Defense- but it already seems that they will not even distribute it- and that before factoring at the possible cost of Chagos settlement, which can see hundreds of millions from the defense budget in the review of this expenditure.”
