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The fund forms part of a broader EU effort to mobilize 800 billion euros ($864 billion) in new defense spending by 2030, ...
Food prices rose at a rate of 4.5% and transport prices rose by 1.7% in the 12 months to June, up from 0.7% in May.
The leaders of councils in, Somerset, and Dorset have announced a series of "ambitious cross-regional projects" as they push ...
Rocket Lab is making serious headlines as its stock soars over 8%, driven by big moves like its Neutron rocket launch plan ...
The triple lock pension is an elegant solution to a real problem: what to do about the fact the UK’s state pension is less generous than our peers. Introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat ...
Using defence spending for economic objectives would be a costly mistake. The most obvious economic consequence of bigger defence budgets will be to strain public finances.
The UK’s National Security Strategy brings together the recently released Strategic Defence Review (SDR), Strategic Security Review, AUKUS Review and Industrial and Trade Strategies. At the same time, ...
Healey expects UK to spend 3% of GDP on defence by 2034 Conservative shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel accused ministers of announcing the target with "no new money" to fund it.
In February, Sir Keir set out plans to increase the UK's defence spending, as opposed to national security spending, to 2.5% by April 2027 and expressed a "clear ambition" to reach 3% by 2034 if ...
Figures published by the Treasury to accompany the spending review showed that average annual real-terms growth for defence between the 2023-24 and 2028-29 financial year is 3.6%.
The uplift will give the defence secretary £11bn to play with as the UK deals with Donald Trump cutting US military spending in Europe.
UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out day-to-day departmental spending until 2029 and capital budgets until 2030, in Labour’s first comprehensive spending review for 16 years.