UK defence spending to double to £100m by 2030, says minister

Ben Wallace says military will grow for first time since end of cold war with armed forces' budget rise

The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said military spending will double from its current level to hit 100bn in 2030 as a result of Liz Truss's commitment to increase the armed forces' budget to 3% of GDP.

The minister said in a Sunday newspaper interview that the military was actually going to grow" for the first time since the end of the cold war - although he did not specifically commit to reversing a planned cut in the size of the army.