Keir Starmer urged to ramp up defence spending – UK politics live
This is ‘probably one of the most alarming times for Britain’s defence since the second world war’, says Lib Dem leader Ed Davey as he calls for more spendingLabour MPs, trade union leaders and members of the Ukrainian community in Britain are to protest outside the Russian embassy in London tomorrow to make the third anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.They will include John McDonnell MP, the former shadow chancellor, who said they would be calling for a “just peace determined by the Ukrainian people and not imposed upon them by either [Donald] Trump or Putin.”Alex Salmond and I had a vision for a new Scottish town and we could think of no better name than Independence.Scotland has an abundance of renewable energy potential. At the moment the Westminster plan is to cable most of that energy south with no benefit to Scotland.A new Scottish town has not been designated since not long after the Second World War, now is the right time to begin a discussion to make a town called Independence a reality. Continue reading...
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This is ‘probably one of the most alarming times for Britain’s defence since the second world war’, says Lib Dem leader Ed Davey as he calls for more spending
Labour MPs, trade union leaders and members of the Ukrainian community in Britain are to protest outside the Russian embassy in London tomorrow to make the third anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
They will include John McDonnell MP, the former shadow chancellor, who said they would be calling for a “just peace determined by the Ukrainian people and not imposed upon them by either [Donald] Trump or Putin.”
Alex Salmond and I had a vision for a new Scottish town and we could think of no better name than Independence.
Scotland has an abundance of renewable energy potential. At the moment the Westminster plan is to cable most of that energy south with no benefit to Scotland.
A new Scottish town has not been designated since not long after the Second World War, now is the right time to begin a discussion to make a town called Independence a reality.
Continue reading...
