The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) programme – announced by the UK, US and Australia in 2023 – will detect and track objects orbiting Earth.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) wants to refurbish an airfield at Cawdor Barracks so it can house the UK’s main contribution to the scheme.<\/p>\n
It would keep Cawdor open beyond its original closure date of 2028, but the scheme has been opposed by local campaigners.<\/p>\n
In a Facebook reel, Morgan said the project should be “halted”, adding: “The United States under Donald Trump is not the partner it once was.<\/p>\n
“Talk of targeting civilians, undermining our allies and diminishing the sacrifice of our armed forces is not the conduct of a reliable ally.”<\/p>\n
She said there was a “clear difference” between standing with partners and “giving a free pass to a US president who has threatened war crimes and shown contempt for our country”.<\/p>\n
The UK should pause its involvement in the radar project “until we can be confident those partnerships reflect our values and our security interests”, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) programme – announced by the UK, US and Australia in 2023…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-532321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}