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Defence policy

July 2024

  • British army personnel load humanitarian aid on to a plane with a union jack on one of the crates

    Labour will not boost military spend without economic growth, says minister

  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives in the US

    Starmer to urge Nato members to boost defence spending amid UK review

  • Russia’s President Putin.

    Europe needs a rethink on Russia and Nato’s role

  • RMS Titanic being fitted out at Harland and Wolf Shipyard, Belfast.

    Struggles at Belfast’s Titanic shipyard reflect UK’s faded naval power

  • ‘Letters of last resort’: deciding response to a nuclear attack among first of Starmer’s tasks

  • I never thought I’d argue for rearmament. But a looming Trump presidency changes everything

    George Monbiot

June 2024

  • Composite of five Tory prime ministers: David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak Composite: PA/EPA/Getty

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Tory government ‘worst in postwar era’, claims expert study – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer speaking into a microphone

    Former head of GCHQ praises Labour’s defence and security plans

  • A protester in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, wearing makeup to symbolise victims of nuclear weapons during a rally on 6 August 2023 commemorating the 78th anniversary of the US dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

    Security, morality and Keir Starmer’s policy on nuclear weapons

  • Rayner with Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves at the launch event for Labour's campaign bus.

    ‘It’s not a game for us’: aboard the Labour battle bus with Angela Rayner

  • Stockpiling nuclear weapons? That will do nothing for national security, Keir Starmer

    Jeremy Corbyn

  • Rayner hasn’t ‘changed mind’ on nuclear weapons but backs Labour policy

  • Reality check
    Reality check: is Keir Starmer’s triple lock on nuclear weapons anything new?

May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak visiting a garden centre

    Sunak struggles to control Tory party on chaotic fifth day of election campaign

  • Rishi Sunak kneeling and talking to children at football practice

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak rejects claim he plans to move to California if he loses election – as it happened

  • British national service recruits pack their kit before being deployed in Korea in 1952

    National service? Will it be monkey tennis next in this meme election?

  • Soldiers marching on parade

    Rishi Sunak’s national service pledge is ‘bonkers’, says ex-military chief

  • US challenges British claim China is sending ‘lethal aid’ to Russia

  • Union warns of threat to Harland & Wolff jobs if Treasury vetoes £200m support

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer averts row with union leaders as Labour reiterates ‘full commitment’ to new deal for working people – as it happened

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