In an impressive feat of persuasion, Ben Wallace and the Defence Chiefs have managed to convince Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to agree to the largest real-term increase in the defence budget since the early years of Mrs Thatcher’s premiership.
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In The News, 19 November 2020UK Integrated Review 2021
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This paper proposes five tests to compare the Integrated Review with the most significant defence and security reviews since 1990.
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