During the 2024 General Election campaign, the Labour Party pledged in their manifesto to “launch a Strategic Defence Review to assess the threats we face, and the capabilities needed to address them.”
This review was billed as Labour’s core defence policy paper of this Parliament, with all future papers intending on drawing from its recommendations.
But what does the Strategic Defence Review 2025 (SDR) actually say about UK defence?
This report explores what the SDR includes, what was left out of the review, and if the SDR achieved what it set out to do. It also compares and contrasts the 2025 Strategic Defence Review to the last comprehensive UK defence strategy: the Conservative Government’s 2021 Integrated Review. To download this document, simply fill out the form below:
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