Dan Jarvis on Thursday described the commitment to 2.5% as “absolutely cast iron”, but no date has been put on when spending will rise to this level. The government’s strategic defence review will be launched next week and will set out a road map to spending 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Prime Minister and the Defence Secretary John Healey have committed to a defence review,
00:03that will be initiated very shortly. It's vital that we look carefully at the nature of the
00:08threat that we face and match that against the capabilities that we will need and then
00:13attach the resource to it. That is an important process but we've made a cast iron commitment
00:18to 2.5% of UK GDP and we will get to that point as soon as we possibly can.
00:24Well the Prime Minister's right, the world is a very dangerous place, probably more dangerous
00:28than at any point during the Second World War and that is why our commitment to NATO is unshakeable
00:33and that is why the Prime Minister has met President Biden, because we recognise that
00:37the special relationship underpins our national security. They are valuable
00:41allies in terms of keeping our country safe.