...for the new warships - which would create or underpin a total of 10,000 jobs - was given in May by the then defence secretary, Des Browne. Contracts worth about Ł3bn were signed in July on board HMS Ark Royal, the flagship of the fleet. The contracts included...
...who set it up, Ms Alexander and Liberal Democrat Nicol Stephen, have resigned; the team in charge of the Scotland Office, Des Browne and David Cairns, have also been replaced; Labour's own fortunes reached rock bottom in the wake of the Glasgow East by-election...
...Western edge of a relatively safe and stable European Union - continues to place great value on having nuclear weapons. Despite Des Browne’s rhetoric to the Conference on Disarmament about the “vision of a world free of nuclear weapons”[2] the financial and...
...it was unlikely the department would receive any additional funds in the governmentâs coming pre-Budget report. In the spring, Des Browne, Mr Huttonâs predecessor, launched an âequipment examinationâ in a bid to reprioritise the MoDâs spending commitments....
...down next year, or about his high profile public statements. " "I said publicly nothing that I had not previously said to Des Browne (the former Defence Secretary). My intention was to be open and honest about how I saw things." But he was pleased with the...
...that their supplies were now good enough. "For me personally as the new Defence Secretary - and I know this was true of Des Browne and all my predecessors - this is the thing we worry about the most. We want to make sure that if we fight this very difficult...
...but if we can prevent future deaths then that is important." Mrs Smith and seven other families met the then Secretary of State Des Browne last December but found "a complete denial that Snatch was the wrong vehicle". Jocelyn Cockburn, a lawyer representing...
...Corporal James Bateman from Middlesex, who was in the same regiment, was also killed in the fighting. Defence secretary Des Browne said it was an intense and terrible week for those serving in Afghanistan. He added: "The deaths of Lance Corporal Bateman and...
...with new Defence Secretary John Hutton, who is seen as more sympathetic to the industry's needs than his predecessor, Des Browne. There has been concern in the industry that some Labour ministers are politically and morally against the defence sector. The...
...launched a damages action against the MoD that alleged "failures" over the use of the vehicles. In 2006, the Defence Secretary Des Browne ordered a review of the Land Rovers, which had increasingly become known as "soft targets". But the month-long review...