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Evening Standard
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Nuray Bulbul

UK's strategic defence review: what does it involve?

In order to restructure the armed forces and the ways in which government agencies hire, fund, equip, and manage them, Sir Keir Starmer has started a "root and branch" strategic defence review.

George Robertson, 78, the former secretary general of Nato who oversaw Tony Blair's ground-breaking 1998 defence review, will chair a team from outside Whitehall that will monitor the review.

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