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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    Russia expels 6 UK diplomats over spying allegations

    Moscow’s move comes ahead of talks between Keir Starmer and Joe Biden on war in Ukraine

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  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
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    UK sent Kyiv large supplies of old military equipment, watchdog finds

    Defence ministry dispatched kit ‘due to be scrapped or replaced’, according to National Audit Office

    Royal Anglian troops sort and prepare ballistic helmets for shipping to Ukraine in March 2022
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
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    US, UK, Germany and France accuse Tehran of sending ballistic missiles for war against Ukraine

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    Technological advantage is key to ensuring the special relationship maintains its lead

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  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
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    UK prime minister to hold second meeting with Joe Biden at time two allies’ approach to Israel at variance

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  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Government law officer raises ‘concern’ with Lammy over Israel arm sales suspension

    Labour solicitor-general Sarah Sackman writes of constituent anger in letter to UK foreign secretary

    Foreign secretary David Lammy announced the suspension of some arms export licenses to Israel in the House of Commons on 2 September
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
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  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
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    But Keir Starmer faces accusations that actions on arms exports go too far or not far enough

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  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
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    Criticism from Israeli prime minister follows decision to block about 30 licences for items including military aircraft parts

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  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    UK to halt exports of some arms to Israel citing possible law breaches

    Decision adds to pressure on Israel over the war in Gaza

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  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Starmer warned he cannot sidestep Brussels in bid to reset UK-EU relations

    British prime minister’s trips to Berlin and Paris are the latest in a flurry of European diplomacy since entering Number 10

    French President Emmanuel Macron, left, gives a thumbs up as he stands next to Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer outside the Elysee Palace in Paris on August 29 2024. A guard in ceremonial uniform stands in the background.
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Starmer launches UK-German treaty bid in meeting with Scholz

    Germany highlights focus on defence talks and the call for greater youth mobility

    Keir Starmer with Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
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    Why Ukraine’s allies are divided over deep strikes into Russia

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  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
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    Starmer tells Xi he wants closer UK-China relations

    Britain has been alarmed by Beijing’s curbing of civil freedoms in Hong Kong and its neutral stance over Ukraine conflict

    Xi Jinping, left, and Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
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    US eases tech curbs to boost Aukus security pact with UK and Australia

    London and Canberra will no longer need licences to obtain some American defence-related technology

    The Aukus trilateral meeting at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California, in March 2023
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
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    Tom Tugendhat hits out at Starmer’s response to far-right violence

    Tory leadership hopeful accuses PM of ‘falling short’ in ‘first test’ since taking office

    Tom Tugendhat
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    UK drops challenge to ICC warrant against Netanyahu

    Change of stance over response to alleged war crimes is likely to strain Britain’s relations with US and Israel

    Man walks past rubble
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    UK politics
    Former UK veterans’ minister avoids threat of jail over Afghanistan inquiry

    Johnny Mercer had repeatedly refused to hand over whistleblowers’ identities, but ‘provided further information’

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    UK defence
    UK signs new defence pact with Germany

    New defence secretary John Healey promises to ‘reset’ the country’s relations with European allies

    British Defence Minister John Healey walks with German Ministry of Defense Boris Pistorius
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Von der Leyen and Starmer plan meeting to drive UK-EU ‘reset’

    European Commission president is aiming for late August or early September encounter, according to officials

    Ursula von der Leyen and Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Starmer warns Europe needs greater self-reliance on defence

    US presidential election hangs over EPC summit as Labour government tries to reset relations after Brexit

  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    UK and EU consider first summit to improve post-Brexit relationship

    Keir Starmer wants to establish defence pact and ease trade tensions in areas such as agricultural goods

    Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with his wife Victoria, and European Council president Charles Michel with his partner Amélie Derbaudrenghien at the Nato summit in Washington last week
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    UK defence
    China poses ‘deadly’ threat to UK, says former Nato boss

    Warning from Lord George Robertson as he heads British strategic defence review

    Lord George Robertson
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