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Starmer’s ‘defence review’ is much-needed

17 July 2024

8:01 PM

17 July 2024

8:01 PM

While this new government’s approach to many issues – the NHS, prisons, China policy – seems to start with a ‘review’, a re-examination of defence policy seems reasonable. New Labour launched a Strategic Defence Review shortly after taking office in 1997. The coalition did a defence review in 2010, and David Cameron’s Conservative government undertook a review in 2015.

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