{"id":14023,"date":"2019-07-12T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/jeremy-hunt-pledges-to-reverse-cuts-to-navy-amid-iran-row\/"},"modified":"2019-07-12T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T11:16:15","slug":"iran-actions-prompt-talks-of-greater-uk-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/iran-actions-prompt-talks-of-greater-uk-military-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Actions Prompt Talks of Greater UK Military Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s actions by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/iran-tried-to-intercept-british-tanker\/\">Iran<\/a> in which their navy tried to abscond a British Tanker has led to a bit of political discussion regarding the deep cuts that the UK Armed Forces have endured thanks to Austerity. PM candidate Jeremy Hunt has come out and said there was &#8220;incredible menace&#8221; behind Iran&#8217;s actions in the Gulf, and that if he becomes prime minister he pledged to boost spending in this area to 2.5% of GDP by 2023-24.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14055\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14055\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14055\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/HNS-Dragon-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/HNS-Dragon-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/HNS-Dragon-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/HNS-Dragon-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/HNS-Dragon.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HMS Dragon T45 Destroyer Commissioned 2012<br \/>Editorial credit: Peter Titmuss \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It will remain to be seen if this actually comes to fruition, however, given the desire to build stronger relations with the US in a post-Brexit world maintaining the level of defence spending is vital given the NATO pledges which few countries outside of the US adhere to. According to the UK parliamentary briefing paper, <a href=\"file:\/\/\/D:\/Downloads\/CBP-8175.pdf\">CBP 8175<\/a>, from 8 November 2018 &#8211; UK spending in the area has fallen in actual terms from \u00a340.2Bn in 2009-10 to \u00a336.9bn in 2017-18 in real terms the fall is worse real terms as the 2009-10 figure inflation-adjusted would be down from \u00a345.9Bn!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-48958359\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC News &#8211; UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s actions by Iran in which their navy tried to abscond a British Tanker has led to a bit of political discussion regarding the deep cuts that the UK Armed Forces have endured thanks to Austerity. PM candidate Jeremy Hunt has come out and said there was &#8220;incredible menace&#8221; behind Iran&#8217;s actions in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1420],"class_list":["post-14023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-uk-military-spending"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14059,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions\/14059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}