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The MoD is currently “significantly pressed for money”, said Trevor Taylor, of the Royal United Services Institute. Taylor pointed to the absence of a decision on a programme to procure new medium-lift support helicopters, whose “acquisition is already a protracted affair”, as a symptom of the difficult funding situation. 

The deal marks a significant milestone, yet it falls short of ending the conflict...Sustaining a ceasefire will demand constant vigilance, confidence-building and the continued engagement of the US, UK and their allies. The ceasefire may have been won, but the hard work of building the peace is far from done. This will require both sides to make difficult – and in Hamas’s case, existential – compromises.”

There are so many different businesses and UK voters in the JLR supply chain, in a lot of different parliamentary constituencies, that I think it would be unusual for this situation to be replicated again,” said Jamie MacColl, a senior research fellow in cyber and tech at the Royal United Services Institute.