UK Will Have to Raise Taxes to Meet Defense Commitments - Former Minister

NAMPA / Sputnik
2025-06-03
MOSCOW, June 3 (RIA Novosti) - The United Kingdom will be forced to raise taxes to meet defense commitments, the country's former foreign secretary Jack Straw believes. "Taxes will have to rise. I don’t see any alternative to that and at the same time, there will have to be some quite difficult retrenchment, particularly on parts of the social security budget," Straw told The Times newspaper​​​. The British government's strategic defense review w......
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