A new government: where next for the UK and Royal Navy?

A new government: where next for the UK and Royal Navy?

01 Aug 24
Posted by: Lt Teddy Bradley RN
18 minutes, 16 seconds read
Message from the Editor

Bold decisions will be necessary to match budgets to ambitions while addressing real security and defence concerns as the Strategic Defence Review progresses. In a ‘One Defence’ environment, what will be the RN’s role? A 20 minute read.

As the dust settles from the United Kingdom’s General Election, Sir Keir Starmer, and the Labour government, has the significant and, for many, the unenviable challenge of pulling the United Kingdom out of an increasingly steep decline, economically, socially, and, most worryingly, democratically. The dominance of ‘post-truth’ populism in Anglo-American politics, and the tendency to shun global and regional institutions in favour of protectionist and xenophobic policies have, for the past decade, seen UK productivity suppressed, damage to the economy and regional relationships,[1] the worst dr…

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