Last month, Britain joined the growing list of world powers that would curb their spending on international aid as Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans to drastically increase the country’s defence budget. Starmer told the House of Commons of the need for the UK to change its “national security posture” to rise against a “generational challenge” that required a “generational response” in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The prime minister said the country would increase its spending on defence from 2.3 per cent of GDP to 2.5 per cent by 2027, which would cost an additional £5.9 billion…

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