{"id":73548,"date":"2026-02-16T18:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/britain-needs-to-go-faster-on-defence-spending-starmer-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:00:03","slug":"britain-needs-to-go-faster-on-defence-spending-starmer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/britain-needs-to-go-faster-on-defence-spending-starmer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain \u2018needs to go faster\u2019 on defence spending, Starmer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/889d179e8ac1e743e7a3ba04fbc057e4e5c36d74\/1163_195_2217_1774\/master\/2217.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=3429074fd950c56913a47292c8eb4b92\" alt=\"Britain \u2018needs to go faster\u2019 on defence spending, Starmer says\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Britain \u2018needs to go faster\u2019 on defence spending, Starmer says<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">PM says \u2018we need to step up\u2019 but sources clarify that is unlikely to mean spending 3% of GDP before next electionKeir Starmer has said Britain \u201cneeds to go faster\u201d on defence spending, though any increase to military budgets in this parliament would not be as high as the \u00a315bn suggested in an overnight report.At a press conference in south-west London, the prime minister was asked to comment on a BBC report that No 10 wanted to increase the defence budget to 3% of GDP by 2029. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/feb\/16\/britain-needs-to-go-faster-on-defence-spending-keir-starmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Britain \u2018needs to go faster\u2019 on defence spending, Starmer says PM says \u2018we need to step up\u2019 but sources clarify that is unlikely to mean spending 3% of GDP before next electionKeir Starmer has said Britain \u201cneeds to go faster\u201d on defence spending, though any increase to military budgets in this parliament would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}