{"id":54534,"date":"2024-07-16T15:36:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54534"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:36:34","slug":"uk-launches-armed-forces-review-after-nato-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54534","title":{"rendered":"UK launches armed forces review after NATO summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer &#8212; just back from a NATO summit &#8212; launched on Tuesday a review of Britain&#8217;s armed forces to set out a path to increasing defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ministry of defence said the &#8220;Strategic Defence Review&#8221; would begin work &#8220;immediately in recognition of the urgency of the threats facing the UK&#8221;, and aim to deliver a report in the first half of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Launched less than two weeks after coming to power, prioritising the review is the government&#8217;s response to Conservative Party efforts to cast doubts about Labour&#8217;s commitment to defence.<\/p>\n<p>During the election campaign, popular attack lines from the Tories included Starmer&#8217;s lack of timeframe for increasing defence spending and claims that Labour was a &#8220;danger&#8221; to national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer &#8212; just back from a NATO summit &#8212; launched on Tuesday a review of Britain&#8217;s armed forces to set out a path to increasing defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP. The ministry of defence said the &#8220;Strategic Defence Review&#8221; would begin work &#8220;immediately in recognition of the urgency of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1993],"class_list":["post-54534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-uk-launches-armed-forces-review-after-nato-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}