Dan Jarvis

Built World

Asked by MPs to protect remote communities during the switchover

About one million copper phone lines are still in use across the UK, including 300,000 in business premises. Openreach has told communications providers the old analogue network, the Public Switched Telephone Network, will be retired on 31 January 2027 and the date will not move.

Updated Nov 1

Money Moves

As of June 2026: Appointed June 11, 2026

Britain's top uniformed officer told the House of Lords on June 16 that the armed forces will have to 'dial back' operations, training, and exercises if funding does not rise. Chief of the Defence Staff Rich Knighton said day-to-day budgets are losing ground to capital spending. The split was 80/20 twenty years ago; on current projections it reaches 50/50 by 2030.

Updated Jun 22