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  • 7 months ago
Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride says that Labour need to focus "much more on now is how we recognise the fact that America decoupled themselves from Europe in terms of defence in many ways". Stride goes on to say that "NATO is not as secure as it used to be" and that Europe needs to increase defence spending. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well I think it's an ongoing relationship that needs to be worked on because America
00:03will always be very important and integral to our own security but I think what the government
00:08needs to focus much more on now is how we recognise the fact that America have decoupled
00:13themselves from Europe in terms of defence in many ways. NATO is not as secure as it
00:18used to be and therefore we need as European countries to look to ourselves far more in
00:23terms of spending more on defence and security to make sure that we have a secure future.
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