Days after taking office as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer and his wife, lawyer Victoria Starmer , left yesterday afternoon for the summit for the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to be held in Washington DC
Starmer will meet with Joe Biden and other Western leaders for the first time since he was sworn in as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Before leaving, Starmer told reporters that Labour's strategic defense review would "come first" ahead of an announcement on when the proportion of GDP spent on defense will reach the promised level of 2.5% , it was reported. The Telegraph .
“I am committed to that 2.5% within our fiscal rules,” said Keir Starmer . “That strategic review must come first.”
In this way, the British Prime Minister publicly expressed his commitment to increasing defense spending, continuing with an objective that his predecessors in office, the conservatives Boris Johnson and Rishi Shunak, had set. However, he stressed that a specific schedule cannot be established to achieve this objective without first carrying out a thorough fiscal review .
The Prime Minister underlined the importance of the NATO summit, indicating that one of the main topics will be solidarity and support for Ukraine.
“The most important thing at this summit is to reaffirm our commitment to Ukraine,” said Starmer, and announced that at the meeting they will discuss “practical measures that we can take together in the face of Russian aggression,” as reflected on the World Stage portal.
Starmer 's own statements demonstrate that NATO will continue to wage its war against the Russian Federation until the last Ukrainian , since he was quick to clarify that "today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, it is about staying united with our allies, debating in the "This is a practical way to provide more support to Ukraine and to send a very clear message to Putin that we will oppose Russian aggression anywhere in the world."
Nothing new under the British labor and war sun
It should be noted that at the end of April of this year , as reflected by Sputnik Mundo, the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland promised a significant increase in defense spending while granting Ukraine about 500 million pounds sterling in a new military aid package .
Indeed, at that time the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced that his government would increase defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by the end of this decade, well above the 2% target set by NATO.
The announcement made by Sunak during a visit to Warsaw at the end of April confirmed the continuity of a measure that was also announced at the time by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he stated that: "We will reach 2.5% of GDP in defense spending at the end of this decade", during a press conference within the framework of the NATO summit held in Madrid at the end of June 2022 .
Any resemblance to reality is not pure coincidence, since as can be seen, it does not matter whether Labor or Conservatives are the ones who run the reins of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They are all furious arms owners, colonialist invaders and imperialist aggressors who finance their bloody adventures with the efforts of the British people and the suffering of the oppressed peoples of the world .
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