Emily Thornberry says ''Labour's first priority is safety'' as she pledges to increase defence spending. The shadow attorney general questions how Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is going to fund the 75 billion pounds increase in defence spending he announced yesterday. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Labour's first priority is the safety and security of its citizens and we will, if we're
00:05 given the honour of being the next government, do a strategic defence review looking at the
00:09 threats and making sure that when we spend people's money, we spend it in the right way
00:14 and we address the increasing concerns that we have and the increasing threats that we
00:18 have against our country.
00:20 So that's what we will be doing and we will increase the amount of money that we are going
00:24 to spend up to 2.5%.
00:26 We are very interested to hear that the government believes that they can increase defence spending
00:31 by up to 2.5% by 2030, that's £75 billion.
00:38 They produced a 22-page document yesterday saying that's what they were going to do but
00:42 there wasn't a single line in it on how they were going to pay for it.