The Defense Spending Conundrum: A Government in Disarray The recent resignation of John Healey as defense secretary highlighted the UK government's chronic inability to set out a clear path for meeting its NATO spending commitments.
The Treasury's chief secretary, Lucy Rigby, has admitted that no analysis has been done on the trade offs necessary to reach the 3. 5% GDP target by 2035.
Rigby's repeated deferrals to future governments and her assertion that "money is finite" underscore the problem.