Sir Keir Starmer risks a diplomatic rift with Japan and Italy as Labour dithers over funding for Britain’s next-generation ...
One Committee member compared the sixth generation fighter with a 1960s tactical strike and reconnaissance aircraft which the ...
Luke Pollard says plan expected last autumn is ‘a bigger task than many people outside defence realise’ ...
Known as Tempest in the UK, which began the effort, the supersonic Global Combat Air Programme fighter is not only the first fighter to be built in Britain in 40 years, it's one of the first of a ...

07:21

A government minister has defended long delays to a military spending plan that are also stalling the UK’s next-generation Tempest fighter jet programme, but refused to say when it will be complete.