00:00Well I'm extremely concerned because this is about the national interest of our country.
00:03Funding defence is a fundamental issue where there should be consensus and we do support that,
00:08but I cannot get over the fact that we've woken up this morning and the Defence Secretary himself
00:14is unable to back up the figures used in Parliament yesterday by the Prime Minister
00:18and I think a really key background point to this is that when Kemi Badenoch stood up at
00:23the dispatch box to face Keir Starmer yesterday and asked questions of him, we had not been given
00:29a statement with any facts in it. It was redacted as the Speaker said at the beginning. That is
00:33not normal practice and we were, to put it bluntly, pretty frustrated about that,
00:38but now you see the consequence because when he said 13.4 billion we'd had no advance sight of
00:43that so we couldn't have checked that in advance, we couldn't call him to account in front of
00:46Parliament and now this morning it's unravelling on the airwaves. So you know we do need urgent
00:50clarity from the Government, they need to be transparent with the British people and get
00:53on with it. This is above that sort of machinations and I hope that they will now set the record
00:58straight. What the Prime Minister has said is he is cutting the aid budget which is something we
01:02suggested at the weekend because as important as aid is we think the military is now the most
01:06important area we need to invest in because of the threats we face. So we supported him on that
01:11but he's got to be clear about the figures. If it's actually only £6 billion he should say so
01:15but he said £13.4 billion, that's an enormous difference, that's £7.4 billion, you can buy a
01:21lot of equipment with that. So I think they need to urgently clarify the position and be straight
01:24with the British people.
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