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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alex Daniel

UK defence firms ‘bleeding cash’ as delayed spending plan leaves industry in ‘paralysis’

Keir Starmer during a visit to BAE Systems in Warton. There is a fighter jet in the background.
Keir Starmer has previously said Britain ‘needs to go faster’ on military spending. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AP

Defence manufacturers are going bust while others have been left in “paralysis” and “bleeding cash” as they wait for a long-delayed UK military spending plan for the next decade, MPs have heard.

Industry groups said a more than six-month delay to the defence investment plan (DIP) had also left the UK behind Germany and the US in attracting cash from global investors.

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