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Ben Wallace

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Ben Wallace to join defence-focused investment firm

    Ex-defence secretary becomes latest on long list of former ministers beating a path towards new careers in business

    Ben Wallace
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    UK honours system
    Sunak hands peerage to Theresa May in eleventh-hour honours list

    The former Conservative prime minister will join the House of Lords

    Former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May has been awarded a peerage in the dissolution honours list
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    UK politics
    ‘Safe pair of hands’ Grant Shapps appointed UK defence secretary

    Claire Coutinho promoted to energy security in mini-reshuffle after Ben Wallace’s departure

    Grant Shapps
  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    UK Government
    Sunak poised to name defence secretary to replace Wallace

    Grant Shapps tipped among others for role that would be energy security secretary’s fifth cabinet job in past year

    Grant Shapps visits the Wall of Remembrance in Kyiv with Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Oleksandr Kubrakov
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    UK defence
    UK military to adopt ‘campaigning mindset’ in new science-driven strategy

    Defence paper calls for ‘shift in organisational culture’ to better respond to threats in an age of funding constraints

    Ben Wallace
  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s reversal on benefits cap spells more contortions to come

    Starmer’s aim to stick to Tory spending plans pre-election raises chance of a backbench revolt — and of looking shifty

    Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer speak at a campaign rally in Gillingham
  • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
    UK politics
    Sunak to appoint new defence secretary after Wallace says he is quitting

    Minister announces he will leave PM’s cabinet at next reshuffle and quit Westminster at general election

    Ben Wallace
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    UK defence spending
    Defence secretary calls for greater share of UK spending on military

    Wallace comments come ahead of publication of plan to reshape armed forces in wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    Defence secretary Ben Wallace in the Commons
  • Monday, 5 June, 2023
    UK foreign policy
    Sunak seeks to burnish UK’s global credentials on Washington trip

    UK leader will hope to show Britain remains key player in global security and forging AI regulatory framework

    Rishi Sunak, right, and Joe Biden at their meeting in Belfast in April
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    UK defence
    UK defence secretary warns of threat of wider global conflict by end of decade

    Ben Wallace urges firm timetable for increasing military spending to 2.5% of GDP

    UK defence secretary Ben Wallace and Commandant Zachary Stenning watch cadets in training during a visit to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Berkshire, UK
  • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    UK delivers cruise missiles to Ukraine ahead of counter-offensive

    Storm Shadow missiles ‘not even in the same league’ as deadly weapons deployed by Russia, says British defence secretary

    An RAF Tornado jet armed with two Storm Shadow missiles
  • Monday, 20 March, 2023
    UK defence spending
    UK resumes payments for army’s troubled Ajax programme

    Defence secretary says progress made on long-delayed £5.5bn armoured vehicle procurement

    An Ajax Ares armoured vehicle
  • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
    UK defence spending
    British army’s troubled Ajax armoured vehicle back on track

    Defence secretary says long-delayed £5.5bn programme has ‘turned a corner’ and deliveries could start in 18 months

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Russia’s ‘big’ Ukraine offensive advancing in ‘metres not kilometres’, says UK defence secretary

    Ben Wallace says Russia is suffering heavy losses from ‘meat grinder’ tactics that may be unsustainable

    Defence secretary Ben Wallace speaks with personnel after observing Ukrainian troops undergoing training at a military facility in south-east England
  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    UK politics
    UK defence secretary braced for ‘uphill battle’ with Treasury on military spend

    Ben Wallace to argue for extra funding ‘because the world is much more dangerous and unstable’

    UK defence secretary Ben Wallace
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russian jet ‘released’ missile near UK spy plane over Black Sea

    Moscow blamed September 29 incident on ‘malfunction’, says British defence minister Ben Wallace

    A Rivet Joint aircraft
  • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
    UK politics
    Tory contenders jostle for position in leadership race as favourite declines to stand

    Defence secretary Ben Wallace bows out while new chancellor Nadhim Zahawi plots campaign

  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    News in-depth
    UK defence minister gets popularity dividend for role in Ukraine

    Among Tory activists, Ben Wallace ranks as the most popular cabinet minister in Boris Johnson’s government

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ben Wallace
  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    US offers further $1bn in Ukraine aid as west steps up weapons supply

    Training in use of high-tech kit and need to maintain western stockpiles remain key bottlenecks

    A Ukrainian service member holds a next generation light anti-tank weapon at a position on the front line amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, near Bakhmut, in Donbas region, Ukraine, June 5 2022
  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    UK to provide £300mn of further military aid to Ukraine

    Boris Johnson due to address Kyiv’s parliament amid cabinet tensions over defence spending

    Boris Johnson walks with Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv
  • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
    UK politics
    Johnson approved animals’ evacuation from Kabul, emails suggest

    Message from Foreign Office official says ‘PM has just authorised’ charity’s ‘staff and animals’ to be flown out

  • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
    UK politics
    British armoured division returns to Germany amid Ukraine tensions

    About-turn just over a year since UK pulled out in move designed to help bolster Nato

    Challenger 3 tank in Germany
  • Monday, 8 November, 2021
    Army UK
    UK government and generals criticised over efforts to curb harassment in army

    Lawyers and opposition dismiss outcome of emergency meeting to address bullying and sexual assault

    UK defence secretary Ben Wallace
  • Sunday, 29 August, 2021
    Afghanistan
    Johnson praises ‘colossal exertions’ as UK’s Afghanistan mission ends

    But Labour claims ministers have ‘significantly’ underestimated number of Afghan citizens Britain ‘left behind’

    UK military personnel on board an A400M aircraft leave Kabul on Saturday
  • Friday, 27 August, 2021
    Afghanistan
    UK leaves over 1,000 Afghans behind with airlift set to end

    Defence secretary expresses ‘deep regret’ but government now faces questions on foreign policy and protecting civilians

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