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UK defence

  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Military technology
    UK tests microwave weapon to disable drone swarms

    ‘RapidDestroyer’ uses a high-power radio frequency to fry systems at a distance

    RFDEW Image of the Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Rebecca Harding
    Now is the moment for a multilateral defence bank

    Deterrence is a shared asset — and a shared responsibility

    A soldier replenishes ammunition in a fighting vehicle during the EU’s Milex exercise in Hungary. The economic backbone of efforts to rebuild European military capacity is exposed to tightening credit conditions
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Europeans look to Nato assets for Ukraine peace force

    Officials examine use of command and control systems and early warning aircraft

    crew boards a NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    UK defence spending
    UK floats plan for joint European fund to ‘stockpile’ weapons

    ‘Supranational’ vehicle would purchase for participating states at more favourable borrowing rates

    F-35B Lightning jets on the flight deck of Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales in February 2024
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Reeves sets out new UK defence growth board

    Chancellor confirms £2.2bn military funding rise next year in Spring Statement

    A soldier aims his rifle
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    News in-depthUK Spring Statement 2025
    Rising debt and spending demands: the squeeze on Britain’s finances — in charts

    UK gross government debt rose from 85.7% of GDP in 2019 to 101.8% in 2024

    Montage shows an empty red wallet with an HMRC Treasury logo against a data backdrop
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Labour party UK
    New poll shows risks for Starmer over spending choices

    Most Labour voters believe protecting welfare is more important than boosting UK defence budget

    Montage shows Keir Starmer against a backdrop of the MoD logo, a disability sign and polling data
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    The Economics Show podcast31 min listen
    How big a fiscal hole is the British government in? With Paul Johnson

    The UK faces weak growth, high interest rates and a huge rise in defence spending

  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Martin Sandbu
    How to create a true common market for defence

    Even Eurosceptics and Britain-bashers should acknowledge the advantage of smooth weaponry supply chains

    European leaders discuss future peace in Ukraine
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Starmer shifts from boots on the ground in Ukraine to air and sea defence

    UK prime minister hosts meeting of senior armed forces figures from 31 nations

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks as he visits a military base to meet planners mapping out next steps in the ‘coalition of the willing’ regarding a Ukraine ceasefire in Greater London
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    EU defence
    Poland and UK discuss defence spending as Europe moves to re-arm

    Finance minister Andrzej Domański calls for smarter funding as continent moves to bolster its military power

    Soldiers from Poland and Britain stand in front of tanks at the Warsaw Armoured Brigade in Warsaw, Poland
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Janan Ganesh
    Europe is only half-awake from its long sleep

    Talk of Donald Trump bringing the continent together is absurdly premature

    A blue triple tandem bicycle designed for three riders, featuring three sets of pedals and seats with a single front wheel missing the back one
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    UK defence spending
    UK offers bumper pay package for new national armaments director

    Salary will be up to £400,000 per year, plus an annual bonus of up to 60%

    A Challenger tank
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    John Gapper
    Industrial strategy turns from green to battleship grey

    Trump’s hard line on Ukraine and Nato poses difficult choices for the UK’s defence industry

    F-35
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    UK foreign secretary backs multilateral defence funding for Europe

    David Lammy says Britain is ‘open’ to joint financing of military spending to boost continent’s security

    UK foreign secretary David Lammy standing at the Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Friday
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    British politics has yet to catch up with Trump’s new order

    In a world without US security guarantees, all other priorities must give way to defence

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Starmer as Lord Kitchener in the classic war poster.
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    UK defence spending
    Class UK defence investments as ethical, Labour MPs urge banks

    Letter to lenders and fund managers seeks to sweep away elements of ESG rules that hamper arms companies

    A model of a Tempest fighter jet on display at the UK’s Farnborough International Airshow
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Exchange traded funds
    EU think-tank looks to ETFs to boost European defence companies

    There has been a surge in interest in weapons makers, but current ETFs offer only global exposure

    rally in support of Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    Starmer urged to use defence spending boost to revive UK manufacturing

    Make UK chief calls for support for small businesses as Europe faces pressure from US to shoulder security cost

    Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (far right) and John Healey, now defence secretary, at the Tapa Nato forward operating base in Estonia
  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
    LexAerospace & Defence
    Time for ESG investors and defence stocks to call a truce Premium content

    Governments are pledging to spend more on defence and want to make it easier for private investors to join in

    US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office
  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    How to respond to the realities of a more dangerous world

    Spending on defence will need to rise substantially if the UK is to meet the challenges it faces

    Keir Starmer stands in front of a Union Jack flag during a tour of Palantir Technologies headquarters
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    UK politics
    Development minister resigns in protest at Starmer’s aid cuts

    Move by Anneliese Dodds comes after prime minister announces plan to shift resources to defence

    Anneliese Dodds is seen arriving at a weekly Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    Can Starmer rise to meet his Bismarck moment?

    Labour will use the geopolitical crisis to defy its own members about the new priorities for a rearming economy

    Illustration of Keir Starmer riding on the coat tails of a huge ghostly figure
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Increasing defence budget will require tough trade-offs

    If Labour will not budge on tax, inflation and a persistent deficit may be the result

    Keir Starmer leaving the room after delivering a statement on defence spending at Downing Street. A presentation screen reads: “Secure at home/Strong abroad”
  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    News in-depthUK defence spending
    ‘Everything has changed’: UK embarks on biggest arms drive since cold war

    Decision to plunder the development budget brings end to era of Britain as an ‘aid superpower’

    British troops on a training exercise in Finland
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