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Evening Standard
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Robert Fox

Sir Keir Starmer vows ‘road map’ to 2.5% defence pledge in Armed Forces review

Sir Keir Starmer has launched a “root and branch” strategic defence review to overhaul the Armed Forces, how they are recruited, funded, equipped and run by government departments.

The review is to be overseen by an external panel from outside Whitehall led by George Robertson, 78, the former Nato secretary general, who conducted Tony Blair’s groundbreaking defence review of 1998.

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