Keir Starmer will face questions from the opposition after announcing the biggest hike to defence spending since the end of the Cold War.
The Prime Minister said on Tuesday that defence spending will increase to 2.5% of gross domestic product by 2027.
The increase in defence spending will be funded by slashing money for overseas aid from 0.5% of gross national income to 0.3% by 2027.
Starmer will jet off after Prime Minister’s Questions to meet with President Trump in Washington on Thursday.
Trump has been demanding that Europe spends more on defence, while the transatlantic approach to the war in Ukraine has come under strain after US interventions such as the US President suggesting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a “dictator”.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has urged Sir Keir to consider redirecting development aid and welfare funding towards defence spending.
But she said that 2.5% by 2030 was “no longer sufficient”.
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