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Labour aims to capitalise on Tory disarray over the public sector pay cap by today demanding an end to the real-terms cuts faced by soldiers over the last seven years. The call for ministers to lift the "cruel" pay cap for Armed Services…
After two years of delay the defence secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, yesterday finally announced the government’s national shipbuilding strategy, rubber-stamping recommendations made by the industrialist Sir John Parker to reintroduce…
Ahead of the general election I wrote in LabourList about how vital it was that we move the defence debate on from Trident and into the wider needs of Britain’s Defence and Security Policy. Election over, this is evermore vital if we are…
Jeremy Corbyn has told Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un to "rachet down the rhetoric" after the US president threatened North Korea with "fire and fury". The Labour leader, who was in Cornwall as part of his summer of campaigning, said the…
How does Labour do even better next time? There is no more important debate, so almost any contribution to it has to be welcome. Getting another five per cent of the vote in the next election may prove to be more challenging than the ten…
“We are going to get hammered on defence at the election.” I think I lost track of the number of times people said that before the campaign. But like so many other lazy assumptions destroyed by the past two months, it simply wasn’t true…
After spending time on Labour’s campaign trail in Exeter, I visited the very marginal Plymouth Sutton and Devonport this week. This is, however, a constituency where Labour is looking to make gains. Conservative incumbent Oliver Colvile…
Defence has always been a difficult issue for Labour to talk about. But lately it’s been more difficult than usual with senior Labour politicians getting tripped up in media interviews and contradicting one another about the renewal of…
Chatham House has been at the forefront of thinking on Britain’s role in the world. So with the general election less than a month away, it’s a great place to set out my approach: on how a Labour government I lead will keep Britain safe…
There is little doubt that Jeremy Corbyn’s personal commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament will be attacked over the next few weeks. Now we know, however, that the draft manifesto pledges to renewing Trident while Labour continues to…
Jeremy Corbyn cast doubt today over his willingness to ever use the Trident nuclear weapon as he pledged Britain would be a different type of country if he was elected prime minister. The Labour leader said he would not launch a "first…
We now know that Theresa May will trigger Article 50 next week, firing the starting gun on our exit from the European Union. What is less well known is the Government will also be starting the process of leaving Euratom, the treaty that…
