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“We've got our military personnel having their training exercises cancelled because they can't afford them. It's a disaster,” Shadow Home Office Minister Matt Vickers says, expressing scepticism about the government's commitment to spending 3% on defence following the Chancellor's Budget. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think actually the government's got bigger questions to answer on defence.
00:03We had a defence secretary who resigned because he couldn't get to 3%.
00:06He said we weren't protecting the country properly.
00:08He's now the Chancellor and on Wednesday he delivered a budget
00:11and failed to give us that 3% spending on defence.
00:14We've got our military personnel having their training exercises cancelled
00:18because they can't afford them. It's a disaster.
00:21The government has bigger answers to give on this issue.
00:24Well, people say lots of things. It might happen one day somehow.
00:28They have not told us how they're going to do it.
00:30They will not tell us how they're going to control the welfare bill.
00:33They will not tell us how they're going to get taxes down
00:35so that families aren't getting battered and businesses aren't getting crippled.

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