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“We've got to increase defence spending and, more broadly, really focus on our national security,” Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge says in response to a report that a US Army soldier has been arrested by British counter-terrorism police on suspicion of spying for Russia. 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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00:00Yesterday we had a question in Parliament about Chinese spies in the House of Commons.
00:03We've got this situation in Gloucestershire where apparently a US soldier has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia.
00:11And you've got all this talk about Iranian plots potentially involving, you know, RAF Fairford, RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk.
00:18When you put that all together, yes, it tells me that we have to take the threat seriously as a
00:22country.
00:23We've got to increase defence spending and more broadly really focus on our national security now.

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