The next PM will be serious about national security – so they have to rethink the UK aid strategy
- The next prime minister will be confronted with a daunting in tray, but the Nato summit Keir Starmer will attend before he leaves No 10 underlines that no issue will be more important than national security.
- The UK, alongside other alliance members, has rightly made ambitious pledges to boost defence spending, but the government lacks a full analysis of the threats the UK faces and – in one crucial respect – its actions risk putting our country in greater danger.
- This weakness is ministers’ silence on the national security consequences from the huge cuts to the overseas aid budget, despite that
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- The next prime minister will be confronted with a daunting in tray, but the Nato summit Keir Starmer will attend before he leaves No 10 underlines that no issue will be more important than national security.
- The UK, alongside other alliance members, has rightly made ambitious pledges to boost defence spending, but the government lacks a full analysis of the threats the UK faces and – in one crucial respect – its actions risk putting our country in greater danger.
- This weakness is ministers’ silence on the national security consequences from the huge cuts to the overseas aid budget, despite that
Sources: The Independent