UK Finally Back-Pedalling Over ‘Special’ Relationship With the US

Friday, March 20, 2015
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
20.03.2015

When UK Chancellor George Osborne failed four times to commit to defence spending targets, following his budget speech this week, he gave another hint demonstrating Britain’s wariness of playing second fiddle to the US.

Back-bench Conservative MPs were outraged when Osborne ducked the question four times about Britain’s commitment to maintaining a two percent of GDP target on defence spending, as set by the US-led NATO organisation at its meeting in Wales in 2014.

A recent study for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) showed that – on current spending plans and growth projections – the UK’s defence budget (excluding spending on any new operations) is set to fall to an estimated 1.88 percent of GDP in 2015/16. Further cuts in the 2015 Spending Review could see defence spending falling to between 1.5 in 2020/21.

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