The government’s new defence review will be announced on Monday by Keir Starmer on low expectation – but it is likely to be the most far reaching reform of the way Britain manages its defences for half a century.
It will be the biggest shakeup in the running of the ministry of defence and the armed forces since 1957 – when the ministry began in its present form with Lord Mountbatten the king’s great-uncle as the first Chief of the UK Defence Staff.
