Britain ‘must be ready to fight’, the minister says before the defense investigation

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The Secretary of Defense John Healey has previously previously accepted the publication of the strategic defense opinion of the UK’s strategic defense, which is struggling to reduce the size of the government.

Healey refused to say that the treasury provides the total cost of financial costs to 3 percent of the GDP, which is mostly determined by the most GDP in the next parliament.

Haitey, Healey’s Publishing Plans and Priorities for the coming years, Healey said that Britain is a large number of threats. “We are preparing for the war to ensure peace,” he said.

On Sundays, he rejected a report that the British wanted to buy a fighter jet by the United States that could set fire to a tactical nuclear weapon to fight the growing threat.

He did not look at the various ways of launching the UK’s nuclear weapons – the Trident said anything more than a nuclear submarine – Healey said: “I will not enter the discussions that need to be a person.”

Healey said that Britain will deliver general defense spending to 3 percent in the near parliament while saying it was “undoubtedly” refused to say that Kansler Rahil Reeves supported the plan.

However, he said that the target is not a solid commitment, but “an ambition”. England will increase Defense costs Cut the budget of aid abroad by 2027 percent by 2027).

“I have no doubt that we will strike this ambition in the next parliament by 3 percent,” Healey said BBC.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has launched a strategic defense opinion after entering the position last year to help Britain described England as a “more dangerous and changeable world”.

The SDR is likely to set the SDR to determine the size of the SDR to determine the size of the Army to see 73,000 targets 73,000 target in 2025 for 2025.

However, since April, the full-handed capacity of the army was reduced to about 70,860.

He asked about the target of his goal, Healey said he had to stop the rest of the first work.

“Our forces were recruitment and a crisis for 15 years,” he said. “We narrowed this gap, but still leaving more people than unification. Our first job is to return the trend.

“Then we want to see the ability to start the growing number of the number in the next parliament.”

Completing the danger for Britain and the West, said: “We are in a changing world now. We must respond to the world of growing threats.

“This is the Russian aggression, it is daily cyber attacks, new nuclear risks and tensions are growing in other parts of the world.”

Earlier, Healey announced that England will buy up to 7,000 long-range weapons and to spend £ 1.5 billion to build at least six new ammunition factories. “This is part of our preparation for the fight when required,” he said.

The former White House of the SDR was headed by George Robertson, led by Robertson, a former Deputy Director General of the General Deputy Director of the Fione Hill and Defense Deputy Defense. They handed over the last iteration of the review in early March.