Military chiefs say Britain will have the world’s most advanced tanks amid fears the Army does not have enough fire power. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the Daily Express that talks were under way to provide more than 148 Challenger 3 tanks.
Rishi Sunak’s popularity among Tory members has plunged further in the last month, polling suggests. The Prime Minister’s net satisfaction rating stands at just 2.9 in the monthly league table of the Cabinet for the Conservative Home website. Mr Sunak’s score is
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has been warned by a senior US general the British Army is no longer regarded as a top fighting force – and is barely on the same level as Germany and Italy. Insiders have also suggested Prime Minister
The UK Government is agonizing over whether to give the green light for the British Army to send Challenger-2s to Ukraine. The move follows months of lobbying from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for Western countries to supply his soldiers with heavy tanks.
Rishi Sunak is failing to capture the hearts of the Tory grassroots members as a new poll reveals that they remain uninspired by the leader – even preferring candidates the PM had run against in last summer’s leadership contest. His Chancellor Jeremy Hunt
The Government has reportedly pushed back on claims from Ben Wallace that ministers are reconsidering rules for flights arriving in the UK from China. The Defence Secretary had claimed the travel rules from China to the UK are “under review”. But a