Meanwhile, the Mail on Sunday focuses on calls from former Army chief Lord Richard Dannatt, who says the Prime Minister needs to increase defence spending “dramatically” to counter the threat of ...

Sir Keir Starmer has been told he needs to increase UK defence spending dramatically to counter the threat of Putin or his ...

The foreign secretary said Vladimir Putin would not "go away" even in the event of a negotiated peace in Ukraine ...

Optimism ‘harder to find’ in war-weary country, where 80pc now say a ‘diplomatic solution’ more likely to end conflict, polling shows ...

Lord Dannatt says up to 40,000 UK troops would be needed for such a mission and "we just haven't got that number available".

Lord Dannatt, 74, said the UK needs to increase defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP because our military is 'so run down' it could not lead a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.