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UK Labour Party outlines its agenda for nuclear warfare targeting Russia Shadow Secretary of State for Defence John Healey used a February 26 speech to Britain’s premier military think-tank to reposition the Labour Party as an unwavering advocate for the NATO alliance and nuclear weapons. Healey spoke to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) regarding Labour’s response to the Conservative government’s Integrated Review of the UK’s Defence and Security Policy. Announced last February by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the repeatedly delayed review is to set out a post-Brexit foreign...

Four generals have issued an unprecedented plea to Boris Johnson to withdraw plans to axe 10,000 soldiers from the Army. The commanders, with decades of frontline service behind them, say the UK will no longer be taken seriously as a military power if the numbers are cut. The Army is widely expected to be reduced to 72,000 regular troops over the next decade as the Ministry of Defence looks to cut its manpower budget so it can afford the latest battlefield technology. Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force commanders are under pressure to make budget savings, hence the concerns over troop redu...

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France and Germany spend more on military than the UK, new report reveals Report says Britain, which is 'traditionally in the lead' when it comes to military expenditure, is instead 'stabilising spending' 10 February 2021 • 7:36pm The figures do not take include the settlement worth an extra £24 billion that was awarded to the MoD by Boris Johnson last November Credit: MoD France and Germany now spend more on the military than the UK, a new report has revealed. The paper, Rethinking our Defense in the face of 21st century crises, by the French think tank Institut Montaigne, found that in ...

Top-end tax cuts encourage exasperation, not aspiration Top-end tax cuts encourage exasperation, not aspiration December 22, 2020 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Advertisement International research has only confirmed our opinion of the Morrison government’s tax cuts (‘‘Top-end tax cuts fail economy and boost inequality: studies’’, December 21). This government has always favoured the top end of town and always will. It’s time voters stopped falling for the nonsense. Frydenberg claimed the tax cuts would reward effort and ‘‘encourage aspirationâ€...