As the prime minister promises to up spending to 2.5% by 2030, he knows all too well it may not be him in Downing Street who has to deliver it.
On the plane from Warsaw to Berlin, Rishi Sunak was buoyant as he briefly chatted to the travelling pack. Having delivered his hat-trick of welfare reforms, the Rwanda bill and now the big lift in defence spending, he was a prime minister who clearly feels on the front foot after a torrid few months. He looked like a man enjoying the job.
Read more: Sunak: World more volatile and dangerous than at any time since Cold War On the assumed baseline, the government had already allocated the additional funding for 2.3% defence spending annually in the next parliament. Increasing that to 2.5% by 2028-29 will, in cash terms, require £4.5bn of funding, which the government says will be paid for through £1.6bn from the annual research and development budget and £2.
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