Spending Review 2025: Military increases as public services squeezed
The figures behind the government’s spending priorities
This is what Britain really needs to defend itself – and it doesn’t include spending billions on arms
Karen Bell responds to the Strategic Defence Review
Alternative Defence Review calls to invest in ‘Welfare, not Warfare’
New report from CND sets out a different way.
Strategic Defence and Security review – GCOMS analysis
The government has today set Britain on a path to spend tens of billions more on the military – while cutting welfare support for some of the most vulnerable in our society and slashing the international development budget. It is a good day for those who profit from death and destruction as the arms industry …
SDR announcement is a ‘blank cheque for the arms industry’
The Global Campaign on Military Spending UK said that today’s Strategic Defence Review is a good day for death and destruction and a bad day for peace and security as the government signs a blank cheque for the arms industry. The SDR lacks a fundamental analysis on how to increase peace and security in the …
Welfare not Warfare! Tackling Spiralling Military Spending in the UK and Around the World
GCOMS UK Network Coordinator writes for Labour Outlook
Global military spending continues to spiral according to latest figures
Read our report on the latest international figures
