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Thomas Harding

Thomas Harding

Security and Policy Editor
London
Thomas Harding is the security and policy editor covering Westminster politics and European affairs. He has reported extensively on the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the British parliament. Before joining The National in 2020, he was a special adviser to the UK defence secretary, working on policy and communications in the Ministry of Defence. He was also defence correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, covering the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, the Balkans and Northern Ireland. He has a degree in international history.
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GCHQ's Benhall building in Cheltenham. Within 'The Doughnut' lies a brilliant 'mix of minds' tackling Britain's foes. Getty Images
Inside UK's eavesdropping nerve centre - where neurodivergence is welcome

The National is given rare access to 'The Doughnut' and the cast of characters leading the fight to keep the country safe from foreign attack

UKAugust 08, 2025
Iran International TV studio in west London. Photo: Iran International TV
Hundreds of Iranian journalists and relatives given death threat ultimatum

Complaint made to UN after reporters from Iran International in 14 countries have been intimidated

MENAAugust 07, 2025
The firestorm cloud that engulfed Hiroshima after the US atomic bomb attack on August 6, 1945. Getty Images
Eighty years after first A-bombs were dropped, could it happen again?

Growing stockpiles of warheads alongside tensions between nuclear rivals put world at its 'most precarious' point since 1945

NewsAugust 07, 2025
Thousands of troops and armour will be needed if Israel wants to reoccupy Gaza. EPA
Israel 'needs 25,000 troops' inside Gaza to reoccupy territory

Experts say five extra brigades of troops would be needed, cities razed and even greater loss of life on both sides inevitable

MENAAugust 06, 2025
A lifeboat crew rescues migrants in the English Channel. A report has found that the UK wasted £38 billion over a decade on migrant welcoming schemes. PA
UK wasted £38 billion on migrant arrival programmes, Oxford report finds

Poor co-ordination and 'crisis mentality' criticised for hindering community integration

UKAugust 03, 2025
There are growing calls for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to announce that the UK will recognise a state of Palestine without ifs and buts. PA
UK urged to recognise state of Palestine without delay

Prime Minister Keir Starmer under increasing public and political pressure to drop conditions

UKAugust 02, 2025
A pro-Palestine protest outside the UK parliament. Britain is now likley to recognise a Palestinian state as Israel rejects its conditions not to do so. Thomas Harding / The National
UK recognition of Palestine 'highly likely' after Israel's furious reaction

Israel unlikely to fulfil Britain's conditions to prevent move

UKJuly 30, 2025
Pro-Palestine protesters demonstrate outside Downing Street in central London. EPA
Britain set to recognise Palestinian state

In major foreign policy reversal, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces recognition will be made at UN General Assembly in September

UKJuly 29, 2025
A pro-Palestine protest in London on Monday, as the UK government is considering recognising Palestinian statehood. Thomas Harding / The National
Starmer pushes Gaza peace plan and recognition of Palestinian state

British Prime Minister calls emergency cabinet meeting to discuss new blueprint

UKJuly 28, 2025
A pro-Gaza protest outside the UK Parliament in cenrtral London. A record number of British MPs have now urged the government to recognise a Palestinian state. EPA
Record backing for Palestinian recognition heaps pressure on Starmer

221 MPs support move that would have a 'significant impact'

UKJuly 25, 2025
President Donald Trump steers a golf cart at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland. AP
Trump's Scotland foray clouded by Gaza suffering

US President to meet Keir Starmer as golf trip offers chance to hear UK position on Palestinian state recognition

UKJuly 25, 2025
A pro-Gaza march outside parliament in London. MPs have called for the government to recognise a Palestinian state 'before it's too late'. Getty Images
Parliament demands recognition of Palestinian state

MPs call on government to endorse statehood before illegal settlers take over all occupied territories

UKJuly 24, 2025
AYLESBURY, ENGLAND - JULY 24: Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India shake hands after Britain's Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Jonathan Reynolds, left, and Piyush Goyal, Minister of Industry and Supply of India, right, signed a free trade agreement at Chequers on July 24, 2025 in Aylesbury, England. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is hosting India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, as they formally sign a new free trade agreement, which has been in negotiation for three years. The deal - the most significant trade pact made by the UK since Brexit, and for India, the first it's signed outside Asia - will still need to be approved by the British parliament and India's federal cabinet, which is expected to take place within a year. (Photo by Kin Cheung - WPA Pool / Getty Images)
Modi visits UK for 'win-win' free trade agreement

London says deal is worth billions and will create jobs, while India sees electric car tariffs lifted

UKJuly 23, 2025
Spanish and Italian Typhoon jets patrolling over the Baltic Sea. Turkey could soon join the Nato countries with a potential order for 40 of the warplanes. AP
UK and Turkey set for Typhoon fighter jet deal

Defence ministers boost hopes for lifeline exports of 40 warplanes

MENAJuly 23, 2025
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Special investigationHow Israel's AI war machine pinpoints Palestinian victims

Investigation by The National unveils serious concerns over killing of civilians with minimal human oversight and questions over Palestinian 'suspicion scores'

MENAJuly 09, 2025
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