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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll

Experts asked to assess strategic threat to UK as part of defence review

Keir Starmer and George Robertson sit at a table with a union flag behind them
Keir Starmer meets George Robertson at No 10 in July. The PM asked Robertson to come up with a roadmap for the UK to ‘tackle international threats head on’. Photograph: Benjamin Cremel/PA

Members of the armed forces and government departments, manufacturers and academics have been asked to assess the strategic threat to the UK up to 2050 as part of the government’s root-and-branch review of defence policy.

George Robertson, a former Nato secretary general and defence secretary in Tony Blair’s first government, has written to dozens of interested parties with a 24-page questionnaire on the future of Britain’s defence.

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