Earlier this month, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pledged to build a “Britannia Shield” to provide a network of radar and command-and-control systems to detect incoming strikes.
During the Tories’ Autumn Conference, Mrs Badenoch said the system, armed with interceptor missiles and counter-drone capabilities, would protect the UK, as well as its sovereign territories and British bases overseas in one of the largest military programmes since the Cold War.
She said: “The world will not wait for Britain to get ready. War has returned to Europe. Missiles and drones are transforming warfare in the Middle East.
“Cheap weapons can now threaten cities, military bases and critical infrastructure in ways that would have sounded like science fiction a generation ago.”
