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Defence secretary calls for greater share of UK spending on military

Wallace comments come ahead of publication of plan to reshape armed forces in wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The British military had been ‘neglected all the way back to Afghanistan and Iraq’, said defence secretary Ben Wallace

The UK government must funnel a greater share of public spending into the country’s military and it “couldn’t be needed quicker”, the defence secretary said on Monday.

Ben Wallace told MPs chancellor Jeremy Hunt had accepted that “defence will require a greater share of public spending . . . if it is to defend these shores, and indeed our people”.

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