Nato head: Britain must show ‘credible path’ of annual defence budget increases

<p>Mark Rutte said Britain will need to steadily increase defence spending to meet Nato target of 3.5% of GDP by 2035</p><p>Britain needs to show “a credible path” of annual increases in its defence budgets to meet a Nato target of spending nearly £30bn more on the military by the middle of the next decade, the head of the alliance said on Thursday.</p><p>Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, said that Britain could not wait until just before 2035 to lift defence spending to 3.5% of GDP, in an unusually pointed intervention a day after he met prime minister Andy Burnham.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/17/nato-head-britain-must-show-credible-path-of-annual-defence-budget-increases">Continue reading...</a>