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Britain “needs to go faster” on rising defence spending, Sir Keir Starmer has admitted.

Speaking on a go to to a group centre in London, the Prime Minister was requested by reporters whether or not the Government will convey ahead its goal to extend defence spending to three% of GDP to 2029.

He mentioned: “Over the weekend, I was making the argument at the Munich Security Conference that we, the UK and Europe, need to step up when it comes to defence and security.

“We have a menace of Russian aggression, in just a few days time it is the four-year anniversary of the beginning of the battle in Ukraine.

“We want a just and lasting peace, but that will not extinguish the Russian threat, and we need to be alert to that, because that’s going to affect every single person in this room, every single person in this country, so we need to step up.

“That means on defence spending, we have to go sooner.

“We’ve obviously made commitments already in relation to that. But it goes beyond just how much you spend, it’s also whether you coordinate and collaborate with other like-minded countries, particularly in Europe.”