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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has raised concerns over the potential international impact of deep defence spending cuts in the UK, including to the Nato alliance.
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Chancellor George Osborne says the defence budget left by Labour failed to reflect the nature of Britain’s military commitments.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox warns the prime minister of “grave consequences” if “draconian” spending cuts are made to the Armed Forces while Britain is at war. Carl Dinnen investigates.
Gary Gibbon
The Sunday Times splash today sounds like another senior army figure has been briefing. There never was much of a chance of cutting back the troop numbers drastically while the army was being deployed in Afghanistan. We know David Cameron’s projected dates for draw-down so the question still remains what will the army look like…
The former head of the army, General Sir Mike Jackson, tells Channel 4 News the government needs to analyse Britain’s place in the world before making big defence cuts.
Demonstrators from right-wing organisation the English Defence League (EDL) clash with police in Bradford, as five arrests have been made. Nick Martin reports.
Zac Goldsmith has appeared on Channel 4 News to respond to questions raised about his campaign costs during the general election. The Conservative MP claimed the allegations were “a nonsense”.
Gordon Brown has been forced to admit he misled the House of Commons over defence spending, after an investigation by Channel 4 News FactCheck.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown accepts he made a mistake when he told MPs that defence spending had risen every year in real terms, following an investigation by Cathy Newman’s FactCheck.
Yesterday FackCheck looked at the prime minister’s claim that the defence budget has been rising every year since 1997. We concluded that in real terms – that is, taking inflation into account – Gordon Brown was incorrect. In real terms, the defence budget has fallen year-on-year four times since 1997. Getting political Today it all got…
Jon Snow
We are about to see Obama’s mettle tested domestically in America. I’m in the States this week and very struck by how his first international foray has gone down here. To some extent its supposed success has been taken for granted. There have been comparisons with Reagan in that the office of the US president…
It’s been nine days since Ukrainian troops crossed the Russian border in what’s been called a ‘surprise incursion’ in this latest phase of the war.
We were joined by the Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, Matthew Savill.
We speak to Alina Frolova, the former Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, about the decision to send troops into Russia.