Labour deny putting support for NATO membership under review
Labour have been forced to deny they will be reviewing their support for the UK’s membership of NTO…
Defence
Ken Livingstone lands role co-convening Labour’s defence policy review
Ken Livingstone will co-convene Labour’s review into defence policy, it emerged last night. Livingstone is a strong ally…
What did we learn from Scottish Labour’s Trident vote?
A lot of excitement has been generated about the Scottish Labour Conference deciding to vote against Trident replacement.…
Scottish Labour conference will debate Trident
Both Constituency Labour Party (CLP) and trade union sections have voted to debate Trident renewal in today’s priority…
Trident renewal could come to Labour conference vote
Whether the Trident nuclear defence system should be renewed could come up for debate at Labour conference in…
The Government may have pledged to spend 2% of GDP on Defence, but the devil is in the detail
Very few expected any of the headlines generated by this week’s Budget to focus on Defence. But let…
DUP lay out demands for coalition – including scrapping the Bedroom Tax
The DUP’s Nigel Dodds has again suggested that his party could work with Labour in a future hung…
Labour has an ambitious and realistic vision for UK defence
UK Defence policy is at a crossroads: UK Service Personnel will have withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end…
Shadow Defence Secretary heads to Gibraltar after “provocative and dangerous” Spanish manoeuvres
A delegation of Labour Shadow Ministers – led by Shadow Defence Secretary Vernon Coaker – are on their…
Yesterday’s Commons defeat for the Government shows they must think again on Defence Reform
Yesterday, MPs voted by a margin of 91-0 calling on the Government to halt their reductions in the…
