Foreign aid billions to be spent on British spies

Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, said: “There’s clearly an aspiration to spend more on cyber-capabilities, where an extra couple of hundred million in the annual budget would make a significant difference, and on space capabilities where competition between the major powers is accelerating. The MoD has also made clear that it wants to move as swiftly as possible towards greater automation of its capabilities, developing new, deadlier, AI-operated drones.”