Sir Keir Starmer has praised a trilateral programme to build a sixth-generation fighter jet as “important” and making “significant progress”, but stopped short of confirming that Britain’s participation in it would not be scaled back.
The UK prime minister declared on Monday that the Global Combat Air Programme, on which the UK is collaborating with Italy and Japan, offered “significant benefits here in this country”.
However, Starmer also noted that “there is, of course, a review going on” into the UK’s defence and declined to stamp out suggestions — stemming from a media report last week — that the jet programme could be axed on the grounds of cost.
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