Nuclear costs crowd out key defence priorities in UK investment plan, say SDR authors
8th July 2026 – 08:20 GMT Shephard Media 1 by Damian Kemp in London, The UK government’s Defence Investment Plan has been criticised by the authors of the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) 2025 which…
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