Overview

• The National Security Strategy warns the UK must actively prepare for the possibility of war on British soil and flags evolving threats across domains from outer space to the deep sea.
• It highlights the danger of hostile states joining with criminal and terrorist groups to launch attacks against UK shores.
• Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to raise national security spending to five percent of GDP within the next decade to strengthen military and civilian capabilities.
• Despite calls from senior military figures and academics to reintroduce conscription to expand the armed forces, the strategy omits any mention of it.
• A YouGov survey found 72 percent of Britons support conscripting women alongside men, although Defence Secretary Pat MacFaddon says conscription is not currently on the table.