Business leaders call for defence industry to be made a national priority as critical material shortages, steel pressures and economic coercion threaten UK supply chain resilience. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has issued a stark warning that the UK’s defence industrial base is increasingly exposed to trade shocks and supply chain disruption, calling on Government to elevate defence to a defining national priority over the next decade and pull more British businesses, particularly SMEs, into the defence sector. In its new report, Delivering Growth: Resilient Global Supply Chains, the BCC sets out a series of measures aimed at protecting…
