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Lisa Nandy has welcomed the announcement of a new military partnership between the UK, US and Australia, largely seen as a bid to counter China, but has called on the government to take a "far more strategic approach" to Sino-British…
In August 1945, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to the loss of between 110,000 and 210,000 lives. Many of the long-term impacts of the bombings, such as cancer clusters, can still be seen across Japan today. As we…
It has now been more than 20 years since a Labour government lifted the ban on gays and lesbians serving in our armed forces. Following a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said: “the status quo is…
We have learnt a great deal this year. We have learnt the true scale of the inequalities exposed and widened by this crisis. We have learnt how poorly our government will treat those on the frontline that are working to support and protect…
A motion tabled by the Labour Party calling on the government to reverse the decision to cut the size of the armed forces has been voted down by the Commons this evening, with 256 MPs voting in favour and 357 against. Opening the debate for…
The government has been defeated in the House of Lords as peers backed a Labour-led move to block the introduction of a presumption against prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and torture. The overseas operations…
Labour has urged the government not to hide from its international responsibilities and warned that the UK is currently "failing to take sufficient action on the issue of protecting civilians in conflict", LabourList can reveal. Shadow…
Keir Starmer has called on the government to prioritise British businesses with a 'British-built by default' approach in defence spending to protect UK jobs and boost manufacturing within the supply chain. The opposition party has said that…
"You just can't trust the Conservatives to protect our armed forces," Keir Starmer told parliament today. The Labour leader and Boris Johnson clashed this afternoon over the recently unveiled reductions to the army size. Reminding MPs that…
Real security is about working co-operatively internationally to tackle the major challenges of our time. From climate catastrophe to global poverty, from the international refugee crisis to health pandemics, we are surrounded by threats…
Keir Starmer has highlighted today that new government policy announced by Boris Johnson "breaks the goal of successive Prime Ministers and cross-party efforts to reduce our nuclear stockpile". In his response to the integrated review of…
Labour is planning to amend the armed forces bill to ensure that rape and other serious offences are investigated and tried through civilian courts when they are committed in the UK in a bid to improve access to justice for service…
