Gary Gibbon
Defence review, Corbyn and talk of a coup
I watched one Labour MP get up as Jeremy Corbyn spoke, shake his head and leave the chamber.
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Gary Gibbon
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Defence review: the £38bn question
FactCheck analyses the Defence Secretary Liam Fox’s claim that the Coalition Government has inherited a £38bn “black hole” from the Labour administration.
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Gary Gibbon
Harrier pilot challenges PM on job losses hours before defence review
One Harrier jet pilot, Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Kris Ward, 37, said to the Prime Minister David Cameron as he visited Permanent Joint HQ in Northwood: “I am a Harrier pilot and I have flown 140 odd missions in Afghanistan, and I am now potentially facing unemployment. How am I supposed to feel about that, please, sir?”
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Jon Snow
Defence Review spin: Mimicking New Labour?
Strange – in former times, budgetary announcements and the rest used to have to be kept secret until they were announced on the floor of the House of Commons. But today vast amounts of the Strategic Defence and the Public Spending Reviews are already out in the public domain.
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Defence review: what next for Britain?
As heavy cuts to the defence budget are announced Michael Codner, director of military sciences at RUSI and former navy commander, writes for Channel 4 News on the implications for Armed Forces.
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Defence review: Armed Forces face 8 per cent cut
The Government announces an 8 per cent cut to the Defence Budget with almost 50,000 jobs being axed along with naval destroyers, Harrier jets and the Nimrod aircraft project.
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Defence review: Kemp calls for merger of three services
A former commander of British troops in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, tells Channel 4 News the Strategic Defence and Security Review should have considered combining the Army, Royal Navy and RAF.
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Strategic Defence Review: What’s up for grabs?
Cheap petrol, expensive cocaine, rescue at sea, every computer you use today. They’re all in play in the Defence Review, writes Carl Dinnen.
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Where the axe may fall in the defence review
It’s not what he would have wanted. When the Coalition Government announced a strategic defence and security review would be carried out, David Cameron would have been hoping for an easier ride.
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Government launches ‘branch and root’ review into defence
With the future of America’s military spending abroad looking uncertain, in the UK, the government has commissioned a review into Britain’s defensive capabilities.
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Three Black women: ‘Bitten, mocked with monkey chants, called slaves’ and then prosecuted for ‘self-defence’
Laws designed to protect racial minorities are being used to prosecute them say civil advocacy leader in exclusive interview.
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‘Europe can do more’ to help Ukraine, says a former defence secretary
We spoke to the former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace who stood down last summer, and left the Commons after the election last week.
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Starmer on defence: ‘That’s what you’d expect from a serious government’
We sit down with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to talk about his commitment of 2.5% of GDP on defence and tackling the crisis in UK prisons.
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FactCheck: how much has the UK spent on military defence, humanitarian aid and homes for Ukraine?
The UK government has committed billions of pounds of support to Ukraine, but where has this money gone and what are the future spending plans to aid the war-torn country? Here’s what we know so far.
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UK nuclear arsenal to increase as part of post-Brexit review
The Prime Minister has laid out Britain’s foreign and defence priorities in what he described as the most comprehensive policy review since the Cold War. China and Russia were listed as the biggest state threats. And there are plans to increase the UK’s number of nuclear warheads.
