New DefSec Dan Jarvis might have to live with the budget total Healey and Carns couldn’t accept. But he must rewrite the Defence Investment Plan to transform defence and make the tough choices we need. / 1
NATO as a protected enterprise is finished. US won’t keep the sea lanes open alone. Britain’s answer is expeditionary forces — anchoring NATO’s northern flank and reaching the Gulf and Indo-Pacific. My latest @spectator:
spectator.co.uk/article/mini…
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If the ministers can’t give the Chiefs what they need to do their jobs then the Chiefs need to make a statement saying just that - else they are complicit in the inevitable cuts and the danger this puts our country in - will you stand up and be counted @UKCDS_MOD or will you hide - one is moral courage - the other moral cowardice
Jun 13, 2026 · 9:23 AM UTC
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