We are getting closer7 May 2026 09:14
From the news: Starmer to set out defence detail in coming weeks
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged that the government will set out how it intends to go further and faster on defence in the coming weeks, in a wide-ranging essay published on his personal Substack addressing the domestic and international security environment, as pressure mounts from industry and senior defence figures over the pace of delivery.
Starmer described the current moment as one that would “shape our future for generations” and said the UK was facing “a war on two fronts, in Ukraine and in the Middle East, a fractured world, more dangerous than at any point in my lifetime.”
He said the choice facing the country was to “rise to this moment together, become a stronger, more resilient and more united nation” or “sink into the politics of grievance and division, a politics that would make us weaker, less secure, and less able to face this moment of danger and turbulence.”
The government was already delivering “the biggest sustained investment in British defence since the Cold War”, Starmer said, and in the coming weeks would set out how it was going to “go further and faster” with what he described as “radical change to meet a radically changed world.” That would include “working more closely with our partners to strengthen the European element of NATO” and building “the formidable productive power and innovative strength that we need.”
British companies, he noted, already account for over a quarter of the continent’s defence industrial base, calling them “a job-creating, community-building machine” and setting out an ambition to “build a shared industrial base across our continent, with British industry at the heart.”
The pledges come against a backdrop of significant industry frustration, we reported recently that senior figures from across the defence sector warned MPs that the delayed Defence Investment Plan was creating what one trade body director described as a state of paralysis, with some SMEs having exited the sector entirely and some unable to make long-term decisions on hiring, production capacity and capital spending.
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