{"id":28190,"date":"2022-10-27T03:16:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T03:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28190"},"modified":"2022-10-27T03:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T03:16:48","slug":"rishi-sunak-urged-to-raise-defence-spending-by-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28190","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak urged to raise defence spending by Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being urged to raise UK defence spending by a key eastern European ally.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estonia, which borders Russia, has hosted British troops on rotation for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its foreign minister Urmas Reinsalu told the BBC it was &#8220;vital&#8221; all Nato countries spend 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Sunak has not matched a pledge, set by predecessor Liz Truss, to meet that target by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new prime minister, who replaced Ms Truss in Downing Street this week, has previously described such targets as &#8220;arbitrary&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he also said he believed in &#8220;investing in our armed forces&#8221; during his campaign to be Tory leader over the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK currently spends just over 2% of GDP &#8211; a measure of the size of the economy &#8211; a year on defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being urged to raise UK defence spending by a key eastern European ally. Estonia, which borders Russia, has hosted British troops on rotation for years. Its foreign minister Urmas Reinsalu told the BBC it was &#8220;vital&#8221; all Nato countries spend 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence. Mr Sunak has not matched a pledge, set by predecessor Liz Truss, to meet that target by 2030. The new prime minister, who replaced Ms Truss in Downing Street this week, has previously described such targets as &#8220;arbitrary&#8221;. However, he also said he believed in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28192,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28190\/revisions\/28192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}