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  • Defence Secretary Ben Wallace gives a speech to the Atlantic Council

    Defence Secretary Ben Wallace outlines the importance of helping to stabilise fragile states

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Defence 2011: A Year in Pictures

    A different image will be posted here each day until 24 December 2011. Most of the featured photographs were taken by Service or MOD photographers…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Chancellor announces new financial restrictions against Iran

    The Government has today imposed tough new financial restrictions against Iran which cut off all financial ties with Iranian banks.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Navy takes the lead in international exercise

    UK mine warfare experts have swapped Scotland for the Gulf to play a pivotal role in the world's largest ever mine countermeasures exercise.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMS Liverpool drives Gaddafi's gunboats back to port

    The main gun of HMS Liverpool has recently driven four boats back to shore as the destroyer once again thwarted Colonel Gaddafi's forces off Libya.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Prime Minister opens Farnborough International Air Show 2012

    David Cameron hails the success of the UK aerospace industry and announces new funding scheme for aerospace engineering qualifications

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • NATO statement

    Prime Minister David Cameron has delivered a statement to the House of Commons about the NATO Summit in Lisbon.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMS Argyll deploys to Middle East after refit

    The Plymouth-based Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll is sailing on a six-month deployment to the Middle East after an 11-month refit.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK aid removing Daesh explosives and helping Iraqis return home

    More than a million Iraqis whose lives were devastated by Daesh safely returned home in 2018, made possible in part thanks to UK aid funded mine clearance work.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Libya Conference participants committed to military action

    Current and potential contributors to military operations in Libya underlined their commitment at yesterday's conference in London to the necessity of military action to implement United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) 1970 and 1973, the UK Foreign Secretary said.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • PM's opening statement to Commons debate on military action in Syria

    The Prime Minister made a statement to the House of Commons to begin the debate and subsequent vote on extending military action in Syria.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Libya update

    The Chief of the Defence Staff's Strategic Communications Officer, Major General John Lorimer, briefed the media this morning, Sunday 20 March 2011, on Operation ELLAMY, the UK's military action in support of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • "Today we sent a clear, unambiguous message that there will be no respite for our collective efforts to stop, suppress and destroy ISIL."

    Statement by Ambassador Matthew Rycroft of the UK Mission to the UN at the Security Council Adoption of Resolution 2249 on ISIL

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • HMS Montrose home from anti-piracy patrols

    HMS Montrose returned home to Plymouth yesterday after a hugely successful five months away as the scourge of Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • MH17 air disaster: article by David Cameron

    The following article appeared in the Sunday Times on 20 July 2014.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Deterrence in the 21st Century

    Speech by Dr Liam Fox Secretary of State for Defence.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • What are the new challenges and opportunities for Europe in Space?

    David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, discusses what lies ahead for Europe in space.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary statement on adoption of UNSC resolution 2397 on North Korea

    Foreign Secretary welcomes unanimous adoption of the UN Security Council resolution following North Korea’s illegal launch of an intercontinental missile on 28 November.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Iran's violations of international law: Foreign Secretary's statement

    Speaking in the House of Commons, Dominic Raab called upon Iran to respect the basic principles of the rules-based international system.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Prince William honours UK submariners

    Prince William paid a special visit to HM Naval Base Clyde yesterday to personally present awards to the sailors who maintain the UK's nuclear deterrent.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government