Tories: Starmer’s defence plans are ‘not good enough’

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Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge criticises the government for making “vague” promises to raise UK defence spending to 3% of GDP. He argues “we know we need to spend 3% so such a vague promise, I’m afraid, is not good enough”.      Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, the key thing is that on Thursday, John Healy, the Defence Secretary, was interviewed by the Times,

00:05and he said spending 3% GDP on defence was a certainty.

00:08And yet since then, they've come back and said, actually, it's only an ambition.

00:11Now, we all agree we need to spend 3%, and there's various reasons for that.

00:15The fact that we face such a threat from Russia, that the US is going to do more in China,

00:20so we need to do more in Europe. We know we need to spend 3%.

00:22So such a vague promise, I'm afraid, is not good enough.

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