Britain, Italy and Japan awarded a £4.6 billion ($6.14 billion) contract to industry joint venture Edgewing to build the new Global Combat Air Programme fighter jet, the ​UK government said on Friday, ...

Andy Burnham will have to find an additional 4.7 billion pounds ($6.2bn) to close a defence funding gap if, as is widely ...

The Tory leader accused the PM of "leaving this mess to his successor" as the pair clashed in the Commons on Wednesday ...

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Sir Keir Starmer facing penultimate session of Prime Minister's Questions if Andy Burnham succeeds him on 20 July ...

Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge said current reservists with a full-time job are "clobbered by the taxman".

Party would use welfare savings from reinstating two-child benefit cap to offer financial relief for part-time soldiers ...

But Mr Pollard went on to tell MPs on the Scottish Affairs Committee that they could “expect to see investment in Faslane, in particular in the Dip (Defence Investment Plan)”.

A £25m city centre health hub to improve patient outcomes is opening for the first time. The Community Diagnostics Centre (CDC) on Colin Campbell Court in Plymouth will have capacity for up to 340 ...

Kemi Badenoch has told Sir Keir Starmer he must invest £28bn in defence “to protect national security” or resign. The Conservative Party leader urged the Prime Minister to pr ...

John Healey resigned because he could not accept the disconnect between what the Prime Minister was saying in public to the nation about the threat of war with Russia and the lack of funding for defen ...

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