Defence Secretary John Healey tells MPs the UK needs "stronger deterrents" to avoid the huge costs that wars create.

Tory MP at launch of report on centre-right politics suggests Chinese influence became a ‘cancer’ in the British economy ...

Concerns have been raised that the increase in defence spending pledged by Keir Starmer’s government is ‘smoke and mirrors’ ...

The general public in Iran will be “happy” about the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, according to a former security ...

That compares with a day-to-day budget increase of 3 per cent for the NHS. However, Ms Reeves’s cash injection for tanks, ...

The ex-defence secretary and Commons leader played a prominent role carrying a sword at the King’s coronation.

Boris Johnson has said Labour’s “feeble” spending on defence leaves Britain at the mercy of Russia. The former prime minister ...

In the Commons, former defence minister and Tory MP James Cartlidge uses his response to the defence review statement to criticise Healey about the Chagos Islands deal. "The one plan they can ...

Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience.  Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious ...

Speaking in Parliament, former MP Lord Jackson of Peterborough argued "reasonable chastisement" was harmless and calls to ...

A former minister has urged the government to correct “decades” of “Treasury tricks” with its defence spending. Ben Wallace, the Tory defence secretary from 2019 to 2023, told BBC Question ...