Defence spending may drop after Brexit - parliamentary committee
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Defence spending may drop after Brexit - parliamentary committee
and the ink on the P8 and Apache contracts isn't even dry yet...
Beeb article in full.
Economic changes after the vote to leave the European Union could see the defence budget reduced in real terms, a committee of MPs and peers says.
The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy says security review planning, conducted once or twice a decade, should begin "immediately".
And its report criticised ministers' failure to set out contingency plans for Brexit in the last security review.
It accused them of "putting political interests ahead of national security".
The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy says security review planning, conducted once or twice a decade, should begin "immediately".
And its report criticised ministers' failure to set out contingency plans for Brexit in the last security review.
It accused them of "putting political interests ahead of national security".
