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Conservative leader promises biggest peacetime rearmament effort in UK history if her party is re-electedThe Conservatives would reinstate the two-child benefit cap and use the savings for a wide-ranging spending splurge on defence in what Kemi Badenoch said would be “the biggest peacetime programme of rearmament in our country’s history”.Speaking at a defence conference in London, the Tory leader criticised the government for Britain’s “lack of readiness” for war, which has been exposed by recent world events. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/11/tories-reinstate-two-child-benefit-cap-fund-defence-kemi-badenoch Author : Geraldine McKelvie Publish date : 2026-04-11 13:17:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Former Ukrainian major general says 4kg of material was most likely an attempt to influence Hungary’s electionHungary elections explainerThe amount of explosives discovered in Serbia last week would not have been enough to destroy the Balkan Stream gas pipeline, prompting an expert to conclude it was probably a Russian intelligence plot aimed at influencing Hungary’s impending election.A former Ukrainian major general and a munitions specialist told the Guardian calculations made by his company showed the 4kg of explosives recovered by Serbia’s military security agency in Kanjiža could not have seriously ruptured the pipe. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/11/explosives-serbia-pipeline-likely-russian-provocation-says-military-expert-hungary-ukraine Author

Officials accept that time has run out to pass law after US dropped its support for planThe UK government has been forced to shelve its legislation to hand the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, after the US dropped its support for the agreement.On Friday, UK government officials acknowledged that they had run out of time to pass legislation within the current parliamentary session, which ends in the coming weeks. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/11/uk-forced-to-shelve-legislation-to-return-chagos-islands-to-mauritius Author : Geneva Abdul Publish date : 2026-04-11 08:18:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Exclusive: Guardian analysis suggests young people who pose ‘catastrophic’ threat still slipping through systemMinisters are “failing to learn the lessons” from the Southport attack and allowing violence-obsessed teenagers to remain a “catastrophic” threat to society, lawyers for victims of the atrocity have said ahead of the findings of an official inquiry.A report on the July 2024 attack by the judge Sir Adrian Fulford, to be released on Monday, is expected to strongly criticise failings by a series of agencies, including the counter-terrorism programme Prevent. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/11/state-failing-lessons-southport-attack-victims-lawyers Author : Josh Halliday North of England editor Publish date