28m ago
08.09 BST
Starmer
to announce commissioning of up to 12 new attack submarines
As
mentioned earlier, the Ministry of Defence has been trailing parts of the
strategic defence review for days. Here are three press releases they issued
last week and over the weekend.
More than
£1 billion to be invested in pioneering ‘Digital Targeting Web’ to spearhead
battlefield engagements, applying lessons learnt from Ukraine to the UK Armed
Forces.
More than
£1.5 billion extra for forces family housing means more than £7 billion to be
spent on military accommodation in this Parliament, tackling the poor state of
forces accommodation across the country.
The UK
will build at least six new munitions and energetics factories and thousands
more long-range weapons to strengthen Britain’s Armed Forces and create new
jobs across the country.
And here
is an extract from the news release issued overnight, saying Keir Starmer will
announce the commissioning of up to 12 new attack submarines. The MoD says:
The prime
minister will announce … that the UK’s conventionally armed, nuclear-powered
submarine fleet will be significantly expanded, with up to 12 new SSN-AUKUS
boats to be built.
The
increase in submarines will transform the UK’s submarine building industry and,
following the £15 billion investment in the warhead programme outlined, will
deliver on this government’s Plan for Change, supporting 30,000 highly skilled
jobs up-and-down the country well into the 2030s, as well as helping work to
deliver 30,000 apprenticeships and 14,000 graduate roles across the next ten
years.
The
announcement comes as the government unveils its new strategic defence review
tomorrow. The externally-led review is expected to recommend that our armed
forces move to warfighting readiness to deter the growing threats faced by the
UK. The report makes 62 recommendations, which the government is expected to
accept in full.
41m ago
07.56 BST
Keir
Starmer to unveil strategic defence review and put UK on ‘war-fighting
readiness’
Good
morning. In his great history of 20th century Britain, The Rise and Fall of the
British Nation, David Edgerton uses the phrase “warfare state” to describe the
UK under the post-war Attlee government, and its successors. He does so to make
the point that, although we think of that period as the era of the welfare
state, defence spending was still huge (around 10% of GDP in the early 1950s).
Keir Starmer is not going to get anywhere close to that, but “warfare state”
still feels like a useful term to describe at least the direction in which he
wants to shove Britain, as the strategic defence review being published today
will indicate.
Starmer
will be interviewed on the Today programme shortly. Here is Dan Sabbagh’s
overnight preview story on what the defence review will say.
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