Nato boss Mark Rutte has put pressure on Andy Burnham to increase defence spending – as Labour’s union paymasters also demand the UK prepares for war.
The former Dutch premier is due to hold talks with the new Prime Minister in No10 today.
But in a speech tonight he is expected to publicly hold his feet to the fire over increasing spending on the UK’s depleted military.
At the Ditchley Foundation’s annual lecture in Oxfordshire, the Nato chief will praise the UK, describing it as ‘serious about security’.
But in what could be seen as a pointed remark about the need to go further,
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