PM’s former security adviser warns of Brexit defence cuts

Britain’s plans for a new defence armoury of jet fighters, attack helicopters and maritime patrol aircraft risk being derailed by the economic fallout from Brexit, Theresa May’s former security chief has warned.Mark Lyall Grant, who served as the prime minister’s national security adviser, said that a Brexit downturn would have a knock-on “impact on UK security” and force the military to rethink ambitious spending projects drawn up in the past two years.Writing in t