LONDON - As the U.K. is boosting military spending, the government is allocating additional funds to the local industry along with plans to bring foreign contractors to Britain, according to Luke ...

A Labour minister has been forced to deny Reform deputy leader Richard Tice was deliberately missed off the bungled national emergency alert. The newly minted Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard ...

Labour is poised to revive plans to house migrants on ex-military bases less than a year after they were abandoned on cost grounds. As Prime Minister Keir Starmer struggles to get a grip on the ...

A defence minister has declined to outline the timetable for when the Government will meet its “cast-iron commitment” to ...

Luke Pollard, minister for defence readiness and industry, said the Ajax armoured vehicle programme has "left its troubles behind" during a defence visit at Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. The £6.3 billion ...

The long-delayed Ajax armoured vehicle programme has “left its troubles behind”, a minister has promised. That is despite its £6.3bn price tag for 589 vehicles – a cost of more than £10m each. The ...

Defence minister Luke Pollard has said he was "disgusted" when he heard that soldiers were injured while using Ajax armoured vehicles, which he had previously been assured were safe. Last month, the ...

From left: Luke Pollard, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Britain's Ministry of Defence, Poland's Minister of National Defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Germany's Federal Minister of ...

A Government minister has vowed to keep delivering more "homes for heroes" after it was announced that 1,000 military properties were upgraded in time for Christmas. Luke Pollard, Defence Readiness ...