We reproduce here a presentation with accompanying slides given by Lt Gen Jonathon Riley at 61 Whitehall on Monday 2 September 2019. It shows how UK ministers have been signing us up to pillars of the European Defence Union after […]
CIB Chairman Edward Spalton reflects on Veterans for Britain researcher David Banks’s presentation on European defence integration at our 2019 Annual Rally. Banks’s presentation — which can be viewed in full in the video below — showed in meticulous detail […]
Germany’s low defence spending is a natural consequence of its leaders’ Weltanschauung (worldview), which has prioritised the supranational over the national, especially in defence and foreign policy. Germany has put considerable political capital behind the aggregation of defence policy towards […]
The phrase ‘Norway Model’ normally refers to the option of the UK re-joining EFTA and remaining in the Single Market (EEA). However, there is another ‘Norway Model’ lurking dangerously below most people’s radars, which poses a much greater threat to […]
UK shipyards, steelyards and specialist defence industry would be better off if the Government were to leave an EU directive which effectively sends UK defence work to the cheapest bidder abroad. Major-General Tim Cross says the Government must therefore scrap its current proposal to […]
A new briefing paper by Veterans for Britain has exposed the extent to which the government’s Chequers plan will sacrifice British control over our own armed forces. The paper, authored by Professor Gwythian Prins, Lt-Gen Jonathon Riley CB DSO and […]
