Category: Ben Wallace

Trump suspending US intelligence sharing is ‘suffocating’ Ukraine’s hope, says Ben Wallace

Former UK defence secretary suggests Ukraine can still win the war if it continues holding off Russian forcesUkraine war live: latest updatesBen Wallace, the former UK defence secretary, has said Donald Trump’s decision to...

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Starmer defends slashing aid budget to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP – as it happened

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereThe rightwing historian Niall Ferguson is in the audience for Badenoch’s speech, according to James Heale from the Spectator.Niall Ferguson spotted at Kemi...

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UK momentum on Ukraine has dropped under Labour, Ben Wallace says

Former Tory defence minister says leadership of Sunak era is lacking and bureaucracy is holding up equipmentMomentum on Ukraine has “dropped back” since Labour took office, according to the ex-Tory defence minister...

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Tory MPs paid £100,000 of public funds to party’s in-house web designers

Exclusive: Conservatives including Jeremy Hunt and Liz Truss used Bluetree to design websites and claimed costs as expensesUK election live – latest updatesMore than 120 Conservative MPs, including Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss,...

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It’s too late to replace Sunak so Tories must ‘march towards the sound of the guns’, Ben Wallace says – UK politics live

Former defence secretary tells colleagues there is no alternative to Rishi Sunak and to ‘get on with’ preparing for an electionOfcom has ruled today that GB News broke impartiality rules on five occasions by using...

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UK minister says he ‘cannot disprove’ claims Afghans were unlawfully killed

Johnny Mercer tells UK inquiry of reports SAS had killed civilians between 2010 and 2013The UK’s minister for veterans, Johnny Mercer, has effectively admitted in front of a public inquiry that he believed members of the...

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Former health minister says Michelle Mone wasn’t honest with him about her PPE Medpro involvement – as it happened

Lord Bethell during Covid posts screengrab he says challenges ex-Tory peer’s claim she told people in government about her links with PPE Medpro. This live blog is closed‘They all knew’: Michelle Mone hits out...

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