UK Defence Contractors Fleeing Overseas as Investment Plan Stalls

A former military chief warned on 12 June that Britain's underfunded defence plans are driving private contractors to better-funded European and transatlantic alternatives. The warning came days after a serving military chief said the UK was running out of time to boost defence as the Investment Plan stalls. Dan Jarvis, appointed Defence Secretary on 11 June, inherits a crisis: strategic ambition has outpaced the institutional machinery to translate spending commitments into contracts.