UKIP Defence Spokesman expresses great
anxiety at news of yet more Tory defence
cuts in the new parliament.
UKIP Defence Spokesman, Mike Hookem
MEP, has said comments on the UK defence budget by the US Defence Secretary,
Ashton Carter are “hugely concerning for the future of the ‘special
relationship’” and has expressed “great anxiety” at news of yet more Tory
defence cuts in the new parliament.Defence Secretary Carter suggested that the United Kingdom could
be hugely diminished as a global player; if the Tories persist with their
current spending plans, which fail to meet the 2% of GDP on defence spending
NATO spending commitment.Mike Hookem MEP said, “Time and again before the election, UKIP
warned that the Conservatives were going to make a further attack on defence
spending if they won power. This was obvious from their sheer lack of commitment
to meet the NATO spending target of 2% of GDP on defence.”
“The simple fact is that Britain’s armed forces are already
starved of much needed resources and further cuts would seriously hamper the
UK’s ability to respond to the constantly evolving world security situation.
More cuts would also seriously harm the vital humanitarian work that Britain’s
armed forces do around the globe.”
