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PEACE campaigners have accused Liz Truss of “spitting in the faces” of people struggling to make ends meet after it was revealed her military spending pledge could cost the public £157 billion.
The Foreign Secretary has committed to increasing the defence budget to 3 per cent of GNP by the end of the decade as part of her bid to become Tory leader.
New analysis of the pledge by think tank the Royal United Services Institute, published today, shows that this would mean spending £157bn, which would amount to the biggest rise in military spending since the cold war arms race of the early 1950s and add 5p in the pound to income tax.
In the conclusion of his two-part article, PETER MERTENS reveals that while global military spending hits $2.7 trillion with European arms company profits soaring 1,000%, €1 invested in hospitals creates 2.5 times more jobs than weapons
RMT’s former president ALEX GORDON explains why his union supports defence diversification and a just transition for workers in regions dependent on military contracts, and calls on readers to join CND’s demo against nuclear-armed submarines on June 7