Britain’s defence spending plans need greater scrutiny | Letters

Readers respond to an article by Simon Jenkins that said sacrificing domestic projects is indefensible Simon Jenkins is right to ask why the debate on defence spending is limited to a question of more or far more expenditure ( There is no immediate military threat to Britain. We should spend less on defence, 1 July ). Two countervailing points are notably absent from parliamentary discussion and media reporting. First, while Vladimir Putin’s Russia undoubtedly poses a serious security threat to countries in mainland Europe, ever higher defence spending is not necessarily the answer. The defenc

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