Jeremy Hunt’s campaign for Tory leader and UK prime minister has seem him outline spending plans for the military budget. As one of two candidates for prime minister, he hopes to win support from Conservative party members to establish Britain as a “first-rank military power”.
Tory leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt has pledged to expand the defence spending by a quarter by 2023-24, declaring his intention to “combat” the “new threats to the Western World”.
Mr. Hunt seemingly indicated on Monday that the UK would be willing to join in a US led attack on Iran saying:
However, the foreign secretary seemingly backtracked on this statement in parliament on Tuesday.
“The US is our closest ally, we talk to them the whole time, we consider any requests that they say carefully, but I cannot envisage any situation where they request or we agree to any moves to go to war.”