The day ahead of his government’s release of a defence strategy review, PM Keir Starmer states he will ‘restore Britain’s war-fighting readiness’.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the United Kingdom it needed to be ready to take on and beat aggressive nations with cutting-edge military technology, as his government is releasing a 1.5-billion-pound (approximately $2bn) project for the construction of at least six new weapons and explosives plants..
We are directly threatened by highly developed states’ armed forces, and we must therefore prepare to fight and to win,” Starmer wrote in Sunday’s edition of The Sun newspaper. “We will restore Britain’s war-fighting capability as the core purpose of our armed forces.
The move was made ahead of a Strategic Defence Review (SDR), which Starmer will release on Monday. The review will identify threats against the UK during the Russia-Ukraine conflict and pressure from United States President Donald Trump for NATO allies to increase their defences.
European countries have moved quickly to bolster their militaries in recent months, in response to Trump’s remarks that Europe needs to take a greater burden for its defence.
Defence Secretary John Healey, in an interview with the BBC network, stated that the promised investment is an unambiguous warning to Moscow and would also revive the UK’s ailing economy.
We live in a world that is transforming today … and it is an increasing threat world,” Healey said in the BBC interview on Sunday. “It’s increased Russian aggression. It’s those incessant cyberattacks, it’s emerging nuclear threats, and it’s rising tensions elsewhere too.
