Defence procurement – who has the courage to fix it?  

Not only is the defence budget squandered, but MoD officials asked to account for the £billion funding gap were “ at best confused and unhelpful and at worst deliberately obstructive ”.  That's according to a report out today by the Defence Select Committee. Indeed. We pay a high price for running such a ruinously protectionist Defence Industrial Strategy Scam.  Money that could buy the best kit for our troops ends up being spent on what it suits the contractors to supply. The taxpayer is ripped off while our armed forces go without. And accountability to Parliament is subverted by officials unwilling to be frank about the scale of what is happening. Defence procurement is broken because it is protectionist. We need to expose those who supply defence kit to choice and competition. Who...