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With Paul Johnson]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK faces weak growth, high interest rates and a huge rise in defence spending]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a6f407a6-252d-4bda-b461-7dcc66c5f2d2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a6f407a6-252d-4bda-b461-7dcc66c5f2d2</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:33:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poland and UK discuss defence spending as Europe moves to re-arm ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finance minister Andrzej Domański calls for smarter funding as continent moves to bolster its military power]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ca7e977d-b916-4720-93ab-18b5c314ff1e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ca7e977d-b916-4720-93ab-18b5c314ff1e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:00:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK offers bumper pay package for new national armaments director]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salary will be up to £400,000 per year, plus an annual bonus of up to 60%]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/5d659efa-d91d-4841-9510-51772d36c17e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d659efa-d91d-4841-9510-51772d36c17e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:10:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[British politics has yet to catch up with Trump’s new order]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a world without US security guarantees, all other priorities must give way to defence]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/fc7ab685-a632-4e35-a0d8-4c9ab7c6da67</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fc7ab685-a632-4e35-a0d8-4c9ab7c6da67</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:22:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Class UK defence investments as ethical, Labour MPs urge banks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Letter to lenders and fund managers seeks to sweep away elements of ESG rules that hamper arms companies]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/062fda6e-e33e-4629-9fbd-16c8c2b318cc</link><guid isPermaLink="false">062fda6e-e33e-4629-9fbd-16c8c2b318cc</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:00:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU think-tank looks to ETFs to boost European defence companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[There has been a surge in interest in weapons makers, but current ETFs offer only global exposure]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/5c6a52f0-65b9-46fb-9884-9e18db5eb281</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c6a52f0-65b9-46fb-9884-9e18db5eb281</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:00:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starmer urged to use defence spending boost to revive UK manufacturing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Make UK chief calls for support for small businesses as Europe faces pressure from US to shoulder security cost]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d5860fc6-a724-49fb-aa23-a865df33704b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d5860fc6-a724-49fb-aa23-a865df33704b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:08:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time for ESG investors and defence stocks to call a truce]]></title><description><![CDATA[Governments are pledging to spend more on defence and want to make it easier for private investors to join in]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/23edb484-1ca8-467a-9bf2-0ce495d6e2fb</link><guid isPermaLink="false">23edb484-1ca8-467a-9bf2-0ce495d6e2fb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:10:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Development minister resigns in protest at Starmer’s aid cuts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Move by Anneliese Dodds comes after prime minister announces plan to shift resources to defence]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d2e361c1-b291-47a2-aa57-ada9a2b41f50</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d2e361c1-b291-47a2-aa57-ada9a2b41f50</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:22:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Starmer rise to meet his Bismarck moment? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Labour will use the geopolitical crisis to defy its own members about the new priorities for a rearming economy]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/00a48a8a-f8a9-4eeb-82e3-e1d20bddca4e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">00a48a8a-f8a9-4eeb-82e3-e1d20bddca4e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:17:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Increasing defence budget will require tough trade-offs]]></title><description><![CDATA[If Labour will not budge on tax, inflation and a persistent deficit may be the result]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/65f9f725-48a4-4872-92a8-0f50abcb98b1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65f9f725-48a4-4872-92a8-0f50abcb98b1</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:30:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Everything has changed’: UK embarks on biggest arms drive since cold war]]></title><description><![CDATA[Decision to plunder the development budget brings end to era of Britain as an ‘aid superpower’ ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/9d8c761f-c4c2-483e-b6e3-82ed6f0bc561</link><guid isPermaLink="false">9d8c761f-c4c2-483e-b6e3-82ed6f0bc561</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:48:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starmer’s announcement of ‘biggest sustained rise’ since cold war comes ahead of Trump meeting on Thursday ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/7e36a306-156e-48d2-93e4-573e3947abec</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7e36a306-156e-48d2-93e4-573e3947abec</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:06:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour cannot ignore Trump’s impact on defence]]></title><description><![CDATA[The tough choices the government needs to make will inevitably mean talking about defence spending in the open]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/2ed04985-4c60-420c-baec-b13362fc37fc</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2ed04985-4c60-420c-baec-b13362fc37fc</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:30:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘America is now an adversary’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus, inside the UK's 'right-wing Davos']]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d0eaeca9-d4c1-44a8-a5f5-2492360ff596</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d0eaeca9-d4c1-44a8-a5f5-2492360ff596</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:48:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Europe’s crisis Starmer and Badenoch should learn from Sunak]]></title><description><![CDATA[Government and opposition need to adapt approach to tackle a grave situation wrought by Donald Trump’s administration ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/152f2e7d-30c9-4b34-9c08-0a44114b5c9d</link><guid isPermaLink="false">152f2e7d-30c9-4b34-9c08-0a44114b5c9d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defence is the greatest public benefit of all ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spending on pensions and healthcare is more popular with voters but Europe and the UK must make politically tough choices ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/e0bd86f9-fd4a-4802-8199-44daaa97d13a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">e0bd86f9-fd4a-4802-8199-44daaa97d13a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:00:52 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>