00:00Tory and Labour governments have absolutely hollowed out our military and it's utterly ill-prepared for any form of serious
00:06combat or warfare.
00:07That's not just my opinion. We saw that in real time during this Iran war when His Majesty's Royal Navy
00:12were ordered to dispatch a destroyer into the theatre battle,
00:16could not get one there on any sensible time frame, and in fact got there over three weeks to get
00:21there.
00:21And now it's back in maintenance again. And look, why has this happened?
00:24It's because when the Tories came to power, supposedly the party that, you know, would keep people safe,
00:30well, they cut defence spending from 2.7% of GDP down to 2.3% of GDP, utterly hollowed
00:36out our Navy, hollowed out our army.
00:39And, you know, they dramatically reduced the number of troops at hand.
00:44And so now what Labour are doing is simply making things even worse at a time of heightened danger and
00:50risk for the British people.
00:51We have domestic threat, you know, security services. MI5 have already said that they've thwarted 20 attempted terrorist attacks by
00:58the IRGC,
00:59which is basically the terrorist arm of the Iranian state.
01:03We've obviously got many other threats abroad.
01:07So, look, reform of the first party, to say, back before even the last general election,
01:11we needed to take defence spending up to three and then three and a half percent, maybe even beyond that
01:17now.
01:17let's look at the temple that we are doing at a time as well.
01:17So, let's look at this first-day point in12-199.
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