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Defence policy

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    The arrogant, reckless Tory government left behind a mountain of mess. In one week, we’ve begun to clear it

    Keir Starmer
  • Joe Biden and Keir Starmer shake hands at the White House in Washington DC

    Keir Starmer says Joe Biden was ‘on good form’ in first bilateral meeting

  • Children at a primary chool

    UK politics: minister cites ‘strict spending controls’ amid calls to scrap two-child benefit cap – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskiy holding each others’ shoulders and smiling.

    UK will give Ukraine £3bn a year ‘for as long as it takes’, says Starmer

  • UK will be ‘leading European nation’ in Nato, defence secretary pledges

  • The Guardian view on defence spending: budget reality cannot be ignored

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Badenoch confirms she did criticise Sunak over election at shadow cabinet – as it happened

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

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

  • Europe needs a rethink on Russia and Nato’s role

  • 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?

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