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    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      UK resumes payments for army’s troubled Ajax programme

      Defence secretary says progress made on long-delayed £5.5bn armoured vehicle procurement

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      UK Budget
      UK defence ministry to receive extra £6bn over next five years

      Budget allocation comes on top of £5bn for next two years promised by Rishi Sunak

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Sunak adopts European mainstream with fresh language on defence

      Integrated review highlights end of ‘peace dividend’, as extra cash for defence will have to come from other public services

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      UK warns China poses ‘epoch-defining challenge’ to world order

      Government’s updated integrated review of foreign and defence policy lists Russia as the most immediate challenge

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      UK foreign policy
      Sunak promises to ‘fortify’ Britain against Russia and China

      Extra £5bn boost to military spending included in update to UK defence and foreign policy

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Failure to sustain defence spending would imperil Nato pledge, MPs warn

      British army’s capacity to deploy effective force to mainland Europe questioned in parliamentary report

    • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
      British army’s troubled Ajax armoured vehicle back on track

      Defence secretary says long-delayed £5.5bn programme has ‘turned a corner’ and deliveries could start in 18 months

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      UK defence secretary braced for ‘uphill battle’ with Treasury on military spend

      Ben Wallace to argue for extra funding ‘because the world is much more dangerous and unstable’

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      UK armed forces would last just ‘five days’ in a war, senior MP warns

      Tory chair of defence committee says cost of replacing kit sent to Ukraine and high inflation had created ‘a really grim picture’

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Military briefing: how the UK took a vanguard role on arms for Ukraine

      British leaders have been feted in Kyiv for their role in galvanising allies to provide weapons

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      Britain set to resume payments for army’s troubled armoured vehicle programme

      General Dynamics says it is owed $1.7bn for long-delayed Ajax contract

    • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
      UK defence chiefs seek funding increase to confront rising threats

      Military has to replenish weapons stockpile and procure new equipment

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Aerospace & Defence
      UK, Japan and Italy agree to build joint advanced fighter jet

      Trilateral military project aimed at an increasingly assertive China and other threats

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      BAE Systems PLC
      BAE Systems bullish as defence spending rises

      Europe’s largest defence contractor in talks to ramp up production of key artillery used in Ukraine

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      Sunak quiet on defence budget as he signs off on £4.2bn frigate contract

      PM refuses to be drawn on matching Truss’s promise of big boost to military spending

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      Truss to launch defence review as she calls for Russian reparations

      Invasion of Ukraine drives rethink just 18 months after conclusion of last process

    • Monday, 19 September, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK to spend at least £2.3bn on Ukraine war effort in 2023

      Liz Truss will make commitment in her first speech to the UN General Assembly as prime minister

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      Sebastian Payne
      Tory rivals should spend less and reform creaking Britain more

      They risk a general election like 1979, when voters look at who has been in charge and ask why nothing works

    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      UK ministers ‘arrogant and unwilling to learn’ on military strategy

      MPs warn armed forces face capability gap and Ukraine shows mistake in cutting heavy armour

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      RAF Typhoons to get new radar as part of £2.35bn upgrade

      Retrofit programme will give key UK combat aircraft new ‘electronic attack’ capabilities and extend its service life into the 2040s

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      FT MagazineSimon Kuper
      Is the west’s increased defence spending even necessary?

      Every day, Putin is depleting his army against a non-Nato country, burning his assets like a narcissist-run start-up

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      UK defence secretary urges boost to military spending

      Ben Wallace wants ‘peace dividend’ invested as head of army condemns ‘brutal aggression’ in Ukraine

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Russian menace brings abrupt end to the west’s ‘peace dividend’

      In a reversal of the post-cold war era, Putin’s attack on Ukraine prompts Nato members to spend more on defence

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      UK defence industry
      BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce win £2bn UK nuclear deterrent contracts

      Move to push ahead with programme to build new submarines comes amid heightened tensions over Ukraine war

    • Monday, 2 May, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      UK to provide £300mn of further military aid to Ukraine

      Boris Johnson due to address Kyiv’s parliament amid cabinet tensions over defence spending

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