"This is the biggest investment in our armed forces since the Cold War"
Claimed by Boris Johnson · 2021-03-16
What fact-checkers found (1)
- BBCDefence spending has been falling. The recent investment means by 2024-25, defence spending will be £7bn a year higher than it would have been under previous plans. But with £7bn worth about 0.35% of GDP, this extra money is not enough to push defence spending above the 3.5% of GDP it represented in 1990.
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