US EditionNewspaper Headlines: Britain 'Battle Ready' and 'New Maddie Search'
- Many MPs, including opposition shadow defence ministers, have not yet seen the strategic defence review before it goes to Parliament, according to The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox.
- The Institute for Fiscal Studies warns that tax hikes will be necessary to fund Sir Keir Starmer's planned increase in defence spending.
- Sir Keir Starmer aims to prepare the UK for war by emphasizing 'war-fighting readiness' and a 'Nato-first' stance, which aims to integrate military and civilian efforts.
- Concerns about the funding of Labour's defence promises have been raised, suggesting that such commitments may not be realistic.
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Starmer promises funding will meet plan for ‘battle-ready, armour-clad’ UK
The Prime Minister launched the strategic defence review amid lingering questions about the amount of money committed to military spending. The UK will move to “war-fighting readiness”, Sir Keir Starmer said as questions remained about his plans to increase defence spending. The Prime Minister said he was “100% confident” the plans in the new strategic defence review – including extra attack submarines, £15 billion on nuclear warheads and thousa…
Starmer pledges to make Britain battle-ready
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No Enemy but Austerity! Starmer Arms the Rich, Attacks the the poor
Starmer has today said that he will make the UK a ‘battle-ready, armour-clad nation’. What this means is that he will spend billions of pounds more on new submarines and arms while continuing to impose austerity on ordinary people and driving people further and further into poverty. His war-mongering talk of war-readiness and a new era of threat are a cynical attempt to deflect any criticisms of his policy of cuts and austerity. His call for ev…
'We are living in an increasingly dangerous world' - Telford MP reacts to Government defence spending review
Today (June 2), Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer revealed ambitions to increase defence spending from 2.5 per cent to 3 per cent over the next parliament as part of plans to move the UK to a state of "war-fighting readiness".
Starmer wants UK to be a warfare-ready state - but how does that balan
Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister credited with creating the welfare state. On Monday, at a shipbuilding yard in Glasgow, Sir Keir Starmer presented himself as a Labour prime minister who wants to be credited with turning the UK into a warfare-ready state, as he spoke of the need for the UK to be prepared for the possibility of war at the launch of his government’s Strategic Defence Review. The rhetoric couldn’t be clearer: Britain is…
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