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The ministers have both hailed the importance of the defence partnership.

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It comes after US president Donald Trump gave Putin a 50 day deadline to agree to a ceasefire

Donald Trump has already threatened to impose ‘very severe’ tariffs on Russia.

In one incident last year, the names and bank details of 272,000 staff were breached when one of its systems was hacked

In 2022, somebody in the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) mistakenly shared a spreadsheet containing the personal information associated with 18,714 Afghans and their family members. This data breach, and the efforts to cover it up, raises serious questions about state secrecy, blame-shifting and accountability.

Downing Street said the Defence Secretary’s statement to MPs was ‘accurate’.

‘There are times where you simply have to act in the most maximalist way in order to stop people from being murdered and executed,’ said the former Defence Secretary

If it’s not superinjunctions, it’s Epstein files or deepfakes. It’s hard not to be a conspiracy theorist when sometimes they really are out to get you, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff