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Harriet Cross, who is the Opposition Assistant Whip, takes aim at the government for its approach to defence investment, saying: “Defence spending is clearly not where it needs to be.” Report by Patelr. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00defense spending is is clearly not where it needs to be and it's really disappointing as well that
00:06the government are still delaying i mean it's over a year now since the strategic defense review was
00:10released and all that time it's just been sitting there waiting for this defense investment plan
00:14which still hasn't been delivered which means that there is still a complete lack of understanding of
00:18how any of these commitments are going to be funded the conservatives have said that we
00:23would put more money into defense by returning to the two child cap by also putting money in
00:29from r d funding from the national wealth fund in order to actually stimulate this defense sector
00:36get more private investment in and actually give our armed forces the support that they really need
00:40and at a time when they clearly really need it both domestically but also looking at the global scene as
00:45well
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