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Plans for a new destroyer to replace Britain’s ageing warships have been scrapped as part of changes to the long-awaited defence investment plan aimed at prioritising drones and modernising the military.

QinetiQ is to install an additive manufacturing facility at HM Naval Base Clyde capable of producing submarine components on demand at the dockside, in a development that is intended to reduce the time boats spend alongside between operational patrols.

A senior general who did not report evidence of supposed SAS war crimes in Afghanistan later presided over the dismissal of numerous UK resettlement applications from Afghan commandos who served with the elite regiment, as revealed by BBC Panorama.

PM’s decision seen by some in Whitehall as precursor for role going to more politically loyal candidate