The prime minister is considering making a significant increase in defence spending, the BBC has learned. Downing Street is mulling over the idea of meeting an existing spending target earlier than planned at a potential cost of billions of pounds. Sir Keir Starmer signalled his attitude over the weekend at the Munich Security Conference, telling world leaders: "To meet the wider threat, it's clear that we are going to have to spend more, faster." The prime minister promised last year to spend