Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab have discussed the deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth during a virtual meeting with their respective Japanese counterparts, Ministers Nobuo Kishi and Toshimitsu Motegi. CSG21, led by UK aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, will herald a new era for UK-Japan defence and security ...
The Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, has travelled to Kenya and Somalia to enhance security cooperation in the battle against terror group Al Shabaab and other shared threats. Mr Wallace signed a refreshed security cooperation agreement following high-level talks with Dr Fred Matiang’i, Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for the Interior, and Dr Monica ...
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and US Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller have co-signed the UK-US Joint Declaration for the Carrier Strike Group 2021 deployment. The Joint Declaration supports UK Carrier Strike Group, led by the UK’s aircraft carrier, HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, on its inaugural deployment this year. The Carrier ...
The Defence Secretary has updated Parliament on the role the UK Armed Forces are playing to tackle Covid. The record 5,300 personnel committed to winter and Covid operations are currently supporting 56 different tasks in the UK and abroad – this includes the vaccine rollout, NHS support and community testing across the ...