UK prime minister Keir Starmer (Image credit: AP) LONDON: Britain announced it will build 12 new attack submarines as it was set to unveil Monday a major defence review to deal with “growing” Russian aggression and the changing nature of warfare.Prime Minister Keir Starmer told BBC radio that “there is greater instability on defence and…
File photo: UK PM Keir Starmer (Picture credit: AP) LONDON: Sikh Federation UK has warned PM Keir Starmer it will campaign to no-platform Labour MPs from Aug 1 unless a judge-led public inquiry into Britain’s role in 1984’s Operation Blue Star is announced in Parliament by the end of July.No-platforming is a political strategy where…
LONDON: Britain will invest £1.5 billion ($2 billion) in new weapons factories to ramp up defence production capacity, the government said on Saturday, ahead of a major review of its armed forces and military strategy.The Strategic Defence Review, due to be published Monday, will assess the threats facing the UK amid Russia’s ongoing war in…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday he will “restore Britain’s war-fighting readiness” as his government warned of “growing” Russian aggression ahead of a major defence strategy review. UK to restore ‘war-fighting readiness’ with new defence review “We will restore Britain’s war-fighting readiness as the central purpose of our armed forces,” Starmer wrote in The…
UK defence secretary John Healey recently admitted that Britain has “lost control of its borders.” The defence secretary’s statement comes after over 1,000 migrants were caught trying to cross the English Channel. UK Border Force vessel ‘Typhoon’, carrying migrants picked up at sea attempting to cross the English Channel from France(AFP/Representational) Describing the scenes as…
UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves are preparing to cut the size of the state as they plan to reduce about 50,000 civil service jobs by 2030, according to reports. UK Civil Service Faces 10% Cut by 2030 The plan to cut 10% of roles by 2030 is part of Reeves’…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A private train operator servicing parts of southern England, including London, on Sunday became the first to be returned to public ownership under a government plan to renationalise Britain’s much-maligned railways.All UK rail operators are due to be renationalised within the next two years in a key policy launched by Prime Minister…
UK PM Keir Starmer (File photo) The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after a high court ruling cleared the way for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to sign the controversial deal.The agreement ends decades of British control over the Indian Ocean archipelago, which has been at the centre of…
Fish can get pretty political. A deal on fishing waters was one of the last things to be sorted out during the original Brexit negotiations, and may prove to be the most contentious aspect of the “reset” agreement struck this week. [ Explainer: what is Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset deal?Opens in new window ] “We always get…
Keir Starmer, Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa (AP) LONDON: Britain has hailed Monday’s strategic partnership agreement with the European Union as the start of a new era, but the effects of the deal on defence and trade remain unclear. Will the agreement boost UK economic growth? That is one of Prime Minister Keir…