ANTI-WAR campaigners branded calls to increase Britain’s military spending obscene today.

Security Minister Tom Tugendhat and Foreign Office Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan broke government ranks to say defence spending should be raised as soon as possible, claiming that Britain must invest at a much greater pace in a joint post on social media last week.

But Stop the War coalition convener Lindsey German told the Morning Star: “Britain is the highest spender on the military in Europe and the sixth biggest in the world.