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UK faces hard choices over military spending: analysts

Britain's newly appointed Defence Secretary, Dan Jarvis leaves 10 Downing Street

LONDON - The shock resignations of two UK defence ministers has thrown British military resources into the spotlight, after they slammed upcoming spending plans for falling short and lacking innovation.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday named as his new Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis, a former officer in the Parachute Regiment once nicknamed the "steely-eyed messenger of death".

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