17 h. ago 'Spineless Starmer is turning UK into a military pygmy': Farage blasts PM as Iran's leader in exile pleads for British support and top brass warn of £28bn funding crisis

The Reform UK leader said it was 'terrifying' that the UK faced a £28 billion shortfall in defence funding.

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18 h. ago Extra defence spending is being lost on MoD’s overdraft, warns former RAF chief

In a damning report for the thinktank Policy Exchange, retired Air Marshall Edward Stringer says increased defence spending is not preventing the UK’s military from shrinking

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55 h. ago UK forces 'face £28bn funding black hole' as fears of war with Russia mount

Keir Starmer is said to have been warned by the chief of the defence staff Richard Knighton that there is a huge gap in budgets over the next four years.

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56 h. ago UK faces ‘£28bn defence funding shortfall’, top military chief warns Starmer

The news of a reported shortfall comes as the UK this week pledged to put troops on the ground in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire

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63 h. ago UK faces ‘£28 billion defence funding shortfall’, top military chief warns Starmer

The news of a reported shortfall comes as the UK this week pledged to put troops on the ground in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire

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3 d. ago UK could be dragged into war with Russia after sending troops to Ukraine, warns former Chief of Defence Staff

Lord Stirrup stressed that the UK had to prepare for the ‘worst possible outcome’ of a peace keeping mission to support Kyiv

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3 d. ago Why the Royal Scottish National Orchestra is facing an existential threat

Alistair Mackie, chief executive of the RSNO, warns there is now a serious question about how much longer it can survive as a full-time, professional national orchestra

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3 d. ago Europe should prepare for world without US nuclear deterrence, former Nato chief warns

Trump’s threat to take Greenland, from a Nato ally, raises doubt on US commitment to extended nuclear deterrence across Europe

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4 d. ago UK’s peacekeeping force in Ukraine needs ‘serious numbers’ to face down Russia, former Nato chief warns

Sir Richard Shirreff said a ‘government without a sword is useless’ as he hit out at Britain’s defence spending despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer’s pledge to increase it to 5 per cent of GDP by 2035

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4 d. ago Government lacks emotional link with voters, cabinet ministers warned

Morgan McSweeney says Labour needs ‘three Es’ of emotion, empathy and evidence, sources sayUK politics live – latest updatesThe government must find ways to reconnect emotionally with voters, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, is said to have warned cabinet ministers, in a meeting where the prime minister said they were in “the fight of our lives”.The prime minister sought to rally his cabinet on Tuesday, telling them to ignore the polls and to prepare to take on Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump push to politicize US military ‘reminiscent of Stalin’, top general warns

Maj Gen Paul Eaton says US president’s effort to bend military to his will could have dire long-term consequencesDonald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth are mounting an aggressive push to politicise the top ranks of the US military – a push that smacks of Stalinism and could take years to repair, the former infantry chief who trained troops to invade Iraq has warned.Maj Gen Paul Eaton has sounded the alarm, saying in an interview with the Guardian that the effort to bend the higher echelons of the military to the US president’s will was unparalleled in recent history and could have long-term dire consequences. He warned that both the reputation and efficiency of the world’s most powerful fighting force was in the balance. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Freed prisoners are committing a record number of serious offences, probation watchdog reveals

Freed prisoners are committing a record number of serious offences including murder and rape, the chief inspector of probation has warned.

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1 week ago ChatGPT maker hiring ‘head of preparedness’ to deal with dangerous AI

‘This will be a stressful job’, warns OpenAI chief Sam Altman

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1 week ago UK needs £800bn of new funding by 2040 to meet defence pledge, says report

Unfunded projects include construction of new barracks, munitions factories and spending on naval hubs

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2 w. ago Russian sabotage submarines capable of destroying seabed cables 'are ready to be deployed to British waters', Royal Navy chief warns

The stark warning came as the First Sea Lord revealed that Russia's Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research, known as GUGI, is back in action after a period of problems and delays.

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2 w. ago UK leaving European convention on human rights would be a mistake, equalities chief warns

Mary-Ann Stephenson defends convention as ‘really important’ and warns against demonisation of migrantsTaking the UK out of a European human rights treaty to quell rightwing anger over immigration would be a mistake, the new chair of Britain’s equalities watchdog has said, as she warned against the demonisation of people who migrate to the UK.Mary-Ann Stephenson, who became head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in December, said the European convention on human rights was part of a framework that provides rights most people would agree were fundamental. But she said the tone of public conversation on it was often dangerous. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Foreign prison officers get visa exemption to prevent UK jail chaos

The Chief Inspector of Prisons earlier warned of a ‘devastating effect’ if a solution was not found

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3 w. ago BoE chief Andrew Bailey warns AI could wipe out jobs like the industrial revolution and squeeze opportunities for young people

Andrew Bailey played down fears of mass unemployment as the technology takes a greater hold on society and the economy.

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3 w. ago Young won’t fight for Britain if country only offers unemployment, says Badenoch

The Tory leader has unveiled her plan to divert green spending into a new defence fund.

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3 w. ago Did Manchester residents CELEBRATE Bondi terror attack? Police investigate claims and say that 'the intolerable has become normalised' amid rise of anti

Sir Stephen Watson, pictured, the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said girls as young as ten have asked for armed officers to attend Hanukkah parties following the Bondi attack

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