UK Widens National Security Remit in a Step Toward NATO Target
National security should be expanded to encompass other risk areas such as the economy, food prices, supply chains, street crime and the Internet.
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/BloombergKeir Starmer’s government will shortly publish a new national security strategy that will broaden the scope of what is considered vital to UK interests to include critical domestic industries, crime and the online world, a shift that could help Britain meet a proposed new NATO target on defense spending.
The strategy, commissioned by the prime minister earlier this year, is due to be released before a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in The Hague next week, at which members are expected to adopt a new target to spend the equivalent of 5% of domestic economic output on defense, a repeated demand of US President Donald Trump.