Cabinet Office
May 16
08:47
2023
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The 2021 Integrated Review (IR2021) provided a comprehensive articulation of the UKs national security and international policy in the context of a world moving towards greater competition and multipolarity. In the two years since its publication, that transition has happened more quickly and definitively than anticipated. The 2023 Integrated Review Refresh (IR2023) responds to a more contested and volatile world.
The broad direction set by IR2021 remains right, and IR2023 maintains significant continuity across most policy. But in a few areas, the UKs pol