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Shadow Crime Minister Matt Vickers has questioned whether the government is playing its part in protecting the UK after Defence Secretary Wes Streeting warned businesses and households to be prepared for cyberattacks and other emergencies. While supporting the advice to prepare, he's challenged the government to spend more on defence. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So the government obviously has access to all of the state's intelligence.
00:03It knows what the threats are. They're telling us we should be doing that.
00:06We definitely should be looking at that.
00:07We should be looking at what we can fill our cupboards with,
00:09what we can do to prepare in case that happens.
00:12I think the question back to the government is about what they're doing in that situation.
00:16We have a Chancellor now who resigned as Defence Secretary
00:18because he said we weren't adequately protecting our country
00:21and we're putting our soldiers at risk.
00:23We still haven't seen a plan for 3%.
00:25The Prime Minister should stay awake at night wondering how we get to that 3%,
00:28how we properly fund our armed forces so that we can protect the country.
00:33That should be the number one priority of this government.

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