00:06First and foremost, that's a sign of the strength of NATO alliance.
00:10It's why we defend, we train, we fight together with allies.
00:14But I'm not happy with the situation we have with British warships.
00:19And that's because it takes six years to build a warship, I tell you.
00:24You know, in the past 14 years of previous governments, they cut the number of frigates and destroyers by a
00:30quarter.
00:30They cut the number of mine hunting ships by a half.
00:34They cut the defence budget by £12 billion in the first five years.
00:38We're starting to fix these problems. We can't do that overnight.
00:42But the fact that we're spending £300 million more on British shipbuilding this year is a sign that we're beginning
00:49to turn things around.
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