00:00Look, it's pretty worrying. I mean, we're hearing day by day about some of the threats,
00:04some of the operations that the UK may or may not be involved in.
00:08And you can't will the ends if you're not willing to will the means.
00:11The Conservative Party has said clearly that we would increase defence spending to 3% this Parliament.
00:16The government hasn't even laid out plans to do even that.
00:20And yet we see how quickly the threat situation is changing.
00:23So it is a real concern.
00:24And what we need is the government to come forward with its own defence investment plan
00:29that's been long promised, not yet published, and to put the money aside by making tough choices
00:35to what governments have to do on things like the welfare budget.
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