According to the newspaper, London intends to continue to allocate at least 2% of its GDP for defense purposes, but it is planned to reduce the number of ground troops to 60-65 thousand people.
According to the publication, in the election manifesto, which should be presented later by Boris Johnson, there will be no promise to keep the armed forces in their original form.
In particular, according to the newspaper, Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace did not rule out the possibility of transferring one of the latest aircraft carriers to NATO or the United States in order to reduce costs.