When she was prime minister, Liz Truss promised that spending on defence would improve to 3 per cent by 2030.
Penny Mordaunt, who has been tipped as a doable future Tory chief, has backed requires the Royal Navy to “keep pace with the growing capabilities of other nations”.
Last month, Mr Shapps, the present Defence Secretary, known as for spending to improve to 3 per cent of GDP, saying: “I do believe that it’s a more dangerous world”.
Robert Jenrick, the previous immigration minister, has known as for cuts in Britain’s assist funds to fund defence.
Last month, the Prime Minister confronted calls from three former Tory defence secretaries to promise to improve defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP in his occasion’s election manifesto.
The calls for got here after no new cash was allotted to the Ministry of Defence within the Budget, regardless of the perilous state of affairs in Ukraine.
Sir Michael Fallon, Sir Gavin Williamson and Ben Wallace, who collectively headed up the MoD for nearly a decade, argued that promising 3 per cent spending was important for the Armed Forces.