The UK is about to see the biggest increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War as it seeks to send “a message to Moscow,” the British defence secretary John Healey said on Sunday.

The strategic defence review will send a “message to Moscow” amid daily Russian cyber attacks on the UK, the defence secretary John Healey has said. “This is a message to Moscow as well.

Defence spending at three per cent of GDP by 2034 is a firm commitment, John Healey has said. The government has previously set out its “ambition to reach three per cent in the next parliament ...