00:00We've all agreed that the government is not on a war footing and needs to be very quickly.
00:06Why is it not on a war footing now?
00:10Because the strategic review commits us to a war footing and we now need to put the funding in place
00:15in order to get there.
00:16I've already announced the increase in defence spending to 2.5%, something that didn't happen under the last government,
00:23and where at the election a credible proposition wasn't put forward by your party.
00:28I'm going to do this and I'm going to do it properly and I want to be able to explain
00:31to Parliament where the money is coming from.
00:33It sounds as though you are at peace while we are actually at war.
00:39With respect, I'm clearing up the mess that I inherited from the last government.
00:42I dare say Winston Churchill had a bit of a mess to clear up from the previous government.
00:47Margaret Thatcher had a bit of a mess to clear up from the previous government.
00:51But now we are facing an urgency. Why were we so unready to defend Cyprus?
00:57Well, we've got a lot of defensive capability in Cyprus, as you know, including the air capability there.
01:06And I've been constantly talking to the Cypriots about this.
01:09I was on the phone yet again to the President on Saturday at some great length.
01:13I was on the phone yet.
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