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No 10 to ditch defence spending manifesto pledge

Promise of above-inflation increase unlikely to be kept despite calls for more spending by defence secretary

Downing Street is expected to ditch its manifesto commitment to increase the defence budget by at least 0.5% above inflation every year, putting Boris Johnson on a potential collision course with Ben Wallace, the defence secretary.

Wallace, who is joining Johnson at the Nato summit in Madrid this week, has reportedly written to the prime minister to call for the defence budget to be increased to 2.5% of GDP by 2028. It is currently just over 2.1%.

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