Donald Trump orders £43 billion boost to defence spending

Donald Trump is ordering a $54 billion (£43 billion) surge in defence spending at the expense of environmental and foreign aid programmes as he tries to make good on the populist programme that propelled him to the White House.An official from the Office of Management and Budget told reporters that it included an almost 10 per cent increase on the $600 billion defence budget.Earlier, officials said Mr Trump was demanding budget savings worth tens of millions of dollars at the Environmental