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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Iran poses ‘persistent’ threat to UK, warns intelligence committee

    Parliamentary report finds there has been a ‘significant increase’ in risk faced by dissidents and Jewish people in Britain

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    An Iranian crosses a street next to a billboard bearing the portrait of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK defence nuclear
    UK and France vow to co-ordinate nuclear weapons for first time

    Announcement marks increase in co-operation between allies amid growing threat from Russia

    An unarmed missile is fired from HMS Vigilant
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Trump set to visit Scotland this summer

    US president has no plans to meet King Charles when travelling to his golf course

    Donald Trump waving
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    French politics
    Macron urges Britain and France to move on from Brexit and work ‘side by side’

    French president says two countries have ‘special responsibility’ for security of Europe

    French President Emmanuel Macron addresses parliament in the Palace of Westminster, London
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    China left off toughest tier of UK regime tracking ‘covert foreign influence’

    Firs register is designed to offer assurance on activities of overseas powers seen as posing a national security risk

    Keir Starmer and Xi Jinping
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    UK sale of F-35 fighter jet parts used by Israel ruled legal by High Court

    Palestinian group had sued government over supply of components to global pool used by allies

    An Israeli F-35 fighter jet
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Philip Stephens
    Principles must not be the victim of Starmer’s embrace of realpolitik

    The government is right to push up defence spending, but hard power isn’t everything

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of Keir Starmer with a red nose riding a fighter jet made of £50 notes
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    UK politics
    Four arrested by UK counterterrorism police after RAF break-in

    Palestine Action campaigners sprayed paint into aircraft engines in protest against Israel’s war in Gaza

    Aerial view of an aircraft at RAF Brize Norton after it was sprayed with red paint by Palestine Action members in June 2025
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    UK defence nuclear
    UK to purchase US jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons

    Britain will join Nato’s airborne atomic mission in a significant overhaul of the country’s defence strategy

    A US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II military jet air display at the Paris Air Show in June
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    China is working to undermine UK democracy, British government says

    Long-awaited official report also recommends increasing trading links to boost economic growth

    Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shake hands before their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing
  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Cyprus arrests alleged Iranian spy near RAF base

    British man is suspected of monitoring the UK’s main hub for operations in the Middle East

    A British soldier and a Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet at Royal Air Force’s Akrotiri base in Cyprus,
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    Pro-Palestinian activist group to be proscribed after RAF base break-in

    Campaign group Palestine Action says members damaged military aircraft at Brize Norton

    Images from a Palestine Action video on the attack
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Starmer puts UK cabinet on alert for potential US attack on Iran

    Ministers in emergency meeting discuss working with American forces if Tehran threatens UK assets in the region

    The prime minister has continued to call for ‘de-escalation’ in the Iran-Israel conflict
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    US-UK relations
    UK hopes for steel and pharma deal with US by July

    Starmer’s top business adviser to travel to Washington for next round of trade talks

    Varun Chandra
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Trump signs executive order to implement US-UK trade deal

    British carmakers and aerospace manufacturers poised to secure quick benefits, but steel producers await further details

    US President Donald Trump (left) holding a US-UK trade deal with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer while speaking to the media at the G7 summit in Canada on Monday
  • Sunday, 15 June, 2025
    British Secret Intelligence Service
    Britain’s MI6 spy agency promotes ‘Q’ to be first female head 

    Appointment of Blaise Metreweli comes as agents grapple with competing threats

  • Sunday, 15 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    UK warns against all travel to Israel as it moves fighter jets to Middle East

    Foreign Office issues guidance as Keir Starmer refuses to rule out use of RAF jets to help defend Israel

    A Royal Air Force Typhoon FRG4 jet is seen inside a hangar at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Trump ready to enact key parts of US-UK trade deal within days

    Elements of agreement covering British cars and US beef and ethanol could be signed off by end of the week

    Keir Starmer and Donald Trump talk with a US flag in the background
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Can We Be Great Again? Jeremy Hunt’s plan to put Britain back on top

    The former chancellor offers a guide to making the most of the UK’s strengths — but dodges some of the big questions

    A smiling middle-aged man in a suit and tie stands in front of a union flag
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK imposes sanctions on Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir

    Moves announced with Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway are first western sanctions against ministers from Israel

    Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are seated together, smiling and clasping hands
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    BBC
    BBC World Service faces Foreign Office funding cut

    Executives argue broadcaster is key to efforts in countering Russian and Chinese propaganda

    The entrance to BBC Broadcasting House in London
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    Jimmy Lai
    Jimmy Lai’s son accuses UK of ‘weakness’ on his father’s detention in Hong Kong

    Sebastien Lai says pro-democracy champion’s health is rapidly deteriorating

    Sebastien Lai holds a framed photograph of his father
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Israel is destroying the foundations of a Palestinian state

    The Netanyahu government must be held to account over Gaza and the West Bank

    Crowds of displaced Palestinians walk to and from an aid distribution centre in Rafah, Gaza
  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    US-UK relations
    British industry exempted from Trump’s doubling of steel tariffs

    UK bosses press Sir Keir Starmer for rapid implementation of trade deal agreed with president

    The British Steel site in Scunthorpe, UK
  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    UK defence spending
    UK set to back Nato push for members to spend 3.5% of GDP on defence

    Commitment to new target expected at summit despite fresh questions for Keir Starmer over funding

    Aerial view of soldiers and vehicles from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment at Kendrew Barracks near Oakham, England
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