Yet again, we read misleading articles about the Defence budget in the news today. We are not spending 2% of GDP on our Armed Forces as reported in many newspapers and media outlets. A huge amount of Defence money has been siphoned into the domestic security silo.
As a result, our soldiers, sailors and air-people are suffering from a lack of modern equipment and realistic training. This reduces morale, harms retention, alarms our Allies and supports our adversaries.
See Chapter 2 of Belfast to Benghazi for the last time that a Government properly supported the Armed Forces.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/belfast-to-benghazi/rupert-wieloch/9781861515667
Rupert Wieloch 