The Times:
”......Britain is ready to go it alone or team up with another power to set up a competing military satellite system if the European Union excludes it from
Galileo, Philip Hammond said this morning.
The chancellor, who is due to meet other finance ministers in Brussels, said that Britain needed full military access to a satellite positioning system in the national interest.
“We need access to a satellite system of this kind. A plan has always been to work as a core member of the Galileo project, contributing financially and technically to the project,” he said. “If that proves impossible then Britain will have to go it alone, possibly with other partners outside Europe and the US, to build a third competing system. But for national security strategic reasons we need access to a system and will ensure that we get it.”......