Gary Gibbon
Jeremy Corbyn, unilateralism and Trident
Scottish Labour has voted against Trident. Jeremy Corbyn’s team may think the wider party could follow suit.
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BAE Systems cuts 2,000 jobs
Almost 2,000 jobs are to be cut at the UK’s biggest defence contractor BAE Systems, in what’s being described by unions as a “bitter blow” for manufacturing. The company, which is facing a lack of orders for its Typhoon jet, claims the restructuring will result in a “sharper, competitive edge”. Labour says the move will…
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More than 600 UK jobs could go at BAE Systems
BAE says the plans could mean the closure of its plant in Newcastle-upon-Tyne as well as up to 280 at other sites in England and Wales.
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Thousands of job losses at BAE systems
Defence company BAE Systems makes almost 3,000 workers redundant due to slower than expected sales of the Eurofighter jet plane.
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BAE Systems to cut almost 3,000 UK jobs
As BAE Systems announces several thousand job losses at a number of its UK locations, a defence economist tells Channel 4 News government spending cuts are to blame.
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BAE cuts 1,800 jobs and ends shipbuilding in Portsmouth
As BAE scales down operations in Portsmouth, news of an end to shipbuilding at the historic yard is greeted with dismay by unions. Hundreds more jobs in Scotland are also to be cut.
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BAE’s £28bn European merger fails to take off
A proposed merger between Britain’s BAE Systems and Europe’s EADS has been called off after opposition from the German government, a spokesman for EADS has said.
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Critical BAE talks ahead of 10 October merger deadline
Britain, France and Germany are trying to rescue a proposed £28bn merger between EADS and BAE Systems, plagued by shareholder criticism and concerns about security, jobs and state involvement.
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Former army chief: ‘think long about EADS/BAE merger’
Former head of British armed forces Sir Mike Jackson says Britain should think ‘long and strategically’ about the proposed merger of EADS and BAE Systems.
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BAE’s £1.6bn Saudi deal reprieves 250 manufacturing jobs
British defence giant BAE Systems secures a £1.6bn deal with Saudi Arabia that will safeguard more than 240 jobs that were under threat at its Yorkshire factory.
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BAE job cuts hit Brough’s elite workforce
With BAE Systems announcing plans to shed 900 jobs at its Brough plant, the town – for nearly a century a centre for aircraft manufacture in Humberside – faces hard times ahead.
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US and UK pull out of Saudi Arabia business summit
Both the US and British government have now pulled out of a high-profile conference due to be held in Saudi Arabia. Dozens of businesses have also bailed – not though, BAE Systems and three major accountancy firms who will be attending.
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UK to announce joint drone project with France
A UK/French plan to build the next-generation drone will be announced tomorrow during a summit in Paris, as Britain’s BAE Systems warns of a 14 per cent fall in sales due to defence spending cuts.
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Prince Andrew caught up in WikiLeaks row
Prince Andrew becomes caught up in the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables row – reported as denouncing the Serious Fraud Office inquiry into BAE Systems as “idiocy”.
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Alex Thomson
Trident: is our nuclear deterrent really independent?
Both main English parties pretend incessantly that our Trident missile system is an “independent” nuclear deterrent when it never was, is, or could be and both Cameron and Miliband know this well.