00:00Now you're calling for cuts in benefits to fund defence spending.
00:04Why didn't the last Conservative government make those same choices at the time?
00:08Well, I'm saying that we need to put back the two-child benefit cap and use that money for defence.
00:14We didn't have the two-child benefit cap. We didn't lift the two-child benefit cap.
00:18We put it in place. Labour wants to increase welfare.
00:21We're saying we can use that money to get 20,000 extra troops, 14,000 reservists, 6,000 regulars.
00:28We also have found money from Ed Miliband's net zero projects, wasteful, taking that and putting it into a sovereign
00:35defence fund.
00:36That's another £17 to £50 billion.
00:39But the bottom line is that there is a war on and the Prime Minister can see that we do
00:44not have enough defence readiness.
00:46He does not have a plan.
00:47I've offered to work with him. I've offered cross-party that defence should not be party political.
00:52Let's work together. You know what he said to me yesterday? No, thanks.
00:55He is not serious about defence.
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