Our latest paper, Time to Leave the European Court of Human Rights, explains the how government must leave the ECHR if it wants to truly gain control over illegal migration
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The capability to produce advanced weaponry is an unavoidable condition of genuine national sovereignty.
Tempest and Aukus must survive. Siren voices at the Treasury must be ignored. If not, the government can expect a veritable storm of protest.
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Ukraine’s navy said that Russia has withdrawn its last naval patrol ship from occupied Crimea, a major victory for Kyiv in its sustained military campaign against the Black Sea peninsula.
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Buckingham Palace has confirmed The King and The Queen will undertake an autumn tour in October 2024, which will include visits to Australia and Samoa, where the couple will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2024.
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Nato will send “dozens” of air defence systems to Ukraine, Joe Biden has said, including four Patriot systems that Kyiv has been seeking to fight off the Russian advance.
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Labour will use this week’s Nato summit to urge other countries to increase their defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP, David Lammy and John Healey have said.
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David Lammy has said his talks with EU nations this weekend are “just the beginning” of his attempt to “reset” relations with the bloc.
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Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack targeting the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, where Moscow’s once-revered Black Sea Fleet is hiding after it was forced to abandon its Crimean base in Sevastopol.
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In response to Chinese aggression, The Philippines has launched a sweeping naval modernization effort. The new missile batteries add land-based firepower to the new fleet.
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Vladimir Putin plans to send Russian children to a summer camp in North Korea where activities include polishing the statues of leaders.
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If a full-scale war erupts between Israel and Hezbollah, a new Labour government must acknowledge that, whatever its supporters might think, Israel is not a foe, but a valued ally.
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for the head of Russia’s military and its recently sacked defence minister over strikes against civilian targets in Ukraine.
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As it is, the French fiscal position looks even more perilous than ours, with a public deficit last year of 5.5pc of GDP and a ratio of public debt to GDP of about 111pc. The comparable figures for the UK are 4.5pc and 98pc.
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For me, it was the three years of frantic efforts of the establishment to stop, reverse, water down, deflect and delay Brexit that brought home just how bad the democratic deficit has become at home as well as in Brussels. @mattwridley
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It came as Ukraine’s prosecutor general said he had “horrifying evidence” of a new Russian policy of beheading captive soldiers instead of detaining them.
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Western intelligence agencies believe that North Korea has become a key munitions supplier to Russia, with satellite images suggesting a massive uptick in shipping between two remote harbours on the Sea of Japan.
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🇬🇧🇪🇺Endorsing our latest report, former Secretary of State for Defence Sir @LiamFox warns “an EU defence project risks undermining our collective security.”
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Attempts to create parallel EU defence structures are misguided and are in danger of becoming an expensive vanity project. The dangers to European security are all too real
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The war in Ukraine has turned into a war of attrition with artillery shell volumes playing a major role, to the Kremlin’s advantage.
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Dozens of Russian soldiers surrendered to Ukraine’s forces after they launched a counter attack around the northern city of Vovchansk, where heavy fighting has been raging since Moscow launched a fresh offensive.
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