Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have issued a joint statement committing the UK and Canada to closer cooperation on multilateral defence financing and procurement, aimed at scaling industrial capacity and strengthening supply chain resilience across allied nations. The statement, published on 8 July, points to a shared challenge facing like-minded partners in expanding defence industrial capacity and supporting deterrence and defence. Both governments welcomed growing allied interest in multilateral approaches to defence financing and procurement, including their own ongoing initiatives, the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) and the Multilateral Defence Mechanism (MDM). The two…
