We need to increase spending immediately." Conservative MP Julian Lewis, former chairman of the Commons defence committee, called for defence spending approaching 4-5% of GDP due to the ongoing ...

Government says increase of funds for Armed Forces to come in spring – but critics suggest ‘a lot more’ is needed ...

British leaders could learn “lessons” from the Swedish government and its brochures about preparing for war, the Defence Secretary has warned. John Healey told MPs that the UK is “stronger if its ...

Councils are being urged to save the Hythe Ferry by helping to fund the cost of a new £250,000 pontoon. Hythe councillor Malcolm Wade has written to Southampton City Council and two other local ...

New Forest National Park Authority CEO Alison Barnes and New Forest East MP Sir Julian Lewis. Throughout the day, there will be short volunteering talks, with speakers providing details about the ...

The BBC has asked every Labour MP in the Solent area for their response ... Two Hampshire MPs, Liz Jarvis (Lib Dem, Eastleigh) and Julian Lewis (Conservative, New Forest East) are members.

Conservative MP Sir Julian Lewis noted Mr Shanks was in “combat mode” while SNP MP Dave Doogan told the House: “In parliamentary language, I am unconvinced by the minister’s reassurance ...

One MP hit out at the decision as an "absolute betrayal ... The members for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis) and for Salford (Rebecca Long Bailey) rightly noted that is rightly unusual, and ...

A US hedge fund that declared war on seven British investment trusts has failed to oust the board of one of its targets. Boaz Weinstein’s Saba Capital is waging a campaign to overhaul the trusts over ...