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BBC's Laura Kuenssberg confronted Defence Secretary Grant Shapps over below-target army spending after he he set out the risks of an increasingly dangerous world

The YouGov survey of 14,000 people indicates Cabinet big beasts such as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps could lose their seats at the general election

Recent weeks have seen Iran-backed Houthi rebels, operating out of Yemen, attack commercial ships heading through the Red Sea and overnight they launched their largest attack yet

The Government of Great Britain would be much, much better – not hard, admittedly – if it were run like BBC TV show The Traitors - with regular Banishments to keep the cast fresh, and always on their toes

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK is weighing up strikes on Houthi insurgents behind a string of attacks on freight vessels in the Red Sea, aimed at disrupting vital trade routes

The Tories have been accused of failing to deliver on a manifesto commitment to reopen railway lines and train stations closed under the Beeching cuts in the 1960s

For seven decades, the men who took part in Britain's top-secret nuclear weapons tests were ignored by successive governments. After a four-year Daily Mirror campaign, they finally got their 'medal for heroes'

The Royal Navy warships HMS Diamond and HMS Lancaster are on patrol in the Red Sea following a series of attacks on shipping by Iranian-backed Houthis

The three Israeli hostages accidentally shot dead by the IDF earlier this week were waving a white cloth on a stick and shouting in Hebrew, according to officials

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said on Saturday HMS Diamond shot down a suspected attack drone in the Red Sea, firing one Sea Viper missile and destroying the target

Ambitious plans to build a tunnel to help the amount of traffic regularly reported near Stonehenge could potentially cost the site its Unesco world heritage status

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said 'who knows what will happen in the future' when quizzed on a possible Boris Johnson return - as Tory schemers devise plans involving Nigel Farage

Major Kevin McCool, 32, from Northern Ireland, was hailed as being widely respected, "adored" and "loved" by his fellow officers and soldiers after he was gunned down by two men in Kenya

Supporters of ousted Home Secretary Suella Braverman have threatened to "raise hell", while the appointment of David Cameron has left MPs "agog and angry" amid fresh WhatsApp plotting by rebels

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was told by Laura Kuenssberg that cabinet members are fed up of Suella Braverman "shooting her mouth off"

Evidence from Boris Johnson's ex-adviser Dominic Cummings and his ex-communications chief Lee Cain revealed the terrifying chaos at the heart of No10 during the pandemic

The MoD has finally admitted it may hold almost 5,000 individual files on blood tests taken during nuclear weapons trials, but says it is too expensive to check them

West of England Mayor Dan Norris has written to Defence Secretary Grant Shapps asking him to confirm the Government will see through the Tempest and Eurofighter Typhoon contracts

Rishi Sunak's spokesman repeatedly dodged saying whether the Government believed Jerusalem was sticking by rules and conventions, as he urged Israel to restore water supplies to the Strip

The Prime Minister spoke out following a spike in incidents where Jews have been targeted in Britain, and backed a crackdown on hate-filled extremists in the UK

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A service inquiry report into the death of 19-year-old Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck has claimed she was subjected to a wave of sexual harrassment at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire

The Home Secretary was accused of using vulnerable people as "cannon fodder" following her Tory Party speech in Manchester in which she claimed a "hurricane" of migration is coming

Cabinet Minister Grant Shapps launched a passionate defence of the British arms industry when he addressed a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester

Cabinet Minister Grant Shapps lashed out at the Twitter billionaire after he admitted thwarting a seaborne assault by Kyiv on Russia's Black Sea fleet at anchor in Crimea

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps insisted British support for Kyiv must continue, regardless of whether the Republican wins the US presidential race taking place next November