The Prime Minister has been up in Scotland this morning, ahead of the full publication of the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) at 3.30 p.m. today. It will set out the UK’s defence spending priorities for the next ten years, including plans to build up to 12 new nuclear-powered attack submarines and spend £15 billion on the warhead programme.

In a speech, Starmer touted the document as a ‘a blueprint to make Britain safer and stronger, a battle-ready, bomber-clad nation with the strongest alliances and the most advanced capabilities.’ Three changes will come from this review, he said. The first, a move to ‘war-fighting readiness’. The second: an additional focus on ensuring that everything this government does is to add to Nato’s strength. The third, is to ‘accelerate innovation at a wartime

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