Cameron reiterates UK defence budget cap at 2% GDP
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the UK would spend more of its defence budget on spy planes, drones and special forces to fight against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq.
Cameron announced last week that the British Government would meet NATO's defence spending pledge of 2% of the country's GDP for the next five years, in line as well with US administrations view.
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"I have tasked the Defence and Security chiefs to look specifically at how we can do more to counter the threat posed by IS and Islamist extremism," Cameron will say, according to excerpts from his speech.
Cameron is expected to hold a meeting this week with Harriet Harman, the acting leader of the opposition Labour party, and its defence spokesman Vernon Coaker to discuss the threat posed by IS, and how to fight against it given that more than 700 Britons have travelled to Syria since the hostilities began.
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