Defence secretary Michael Fallon has serious questions to answer about the UK’s secretive procurement policy – the latest controversy being the decision to buy nine maritime patrol aircraft from…Read more…
‘Keep Clyde drumbeat going’
Last November, chancellor George Osborne announced in his spending review details of the defence budget – he pledged that the MoD would deliver £9.2bn in savings, much of which would come from both…Read more…
Defend our spend
Unite convened a special conference this week in Preston, which saw the launch of the union’s ‘Defend our Spend’ campaign that aims to press the government to keep UK defence spending in Britain….Read more…
For the future of our communities
Tens of thousands of skilled defence jobs are at risk from an ‘unpatriotic’ purchasing strategy that sees increasing amounts of UK defence expenditure flow to the US. That was the message from…Read more…
Not a ‘political football’
Unite has warned UK government ministers against using defence workers as a ‘political football’ and jeopardising jobs. The move came as it emerged that a House of Commons vote on the…Read more…
Support defence jobs plea
Growing frustrations with the government’s short term political decision-making have led Unite defence sector members to join with leading industry figures to discuss the growing frustrations at a…Read more…
Why we should vote to scrap Trident today
Trident is an expensive status symbol that has no military value and drains resources from conventional defence and socially useful investment.
Today, the Scottish Labour conference in Perth will…Read more…