Britain Must Be War Ready

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00:00What's your initial reaction to the plans unveiled by the Prime Minister today?

00:06Is it enough to protect the UK from global threats?

00:11Well, good afternoon. You heard the strong language there by the Prime Minister,

00:16and that's echoed right across the piece here.

00:18Britain needs to become war-ready, if you like, given how dangerous the world is becoming.

00:24The threats we now face are more serious and less predictable than at any time since the Cold War.

00:30We've got this war raging in Europe. Russia hasn't changed its stance.

00:34New nuclear risks are there, as well as us on the receiving end of daily cyberattacks.

00:40So we do need to upgrade our defence posture.

00:45And like with many nations, we've fallen behind in how we approach defence over the last couple of decades.

00:50It's been a pretty easy couple of decades, but those days are now over

00:55because the very character of conflicts is changing as those threats indeed increase.

01:01So this defence review is certainly ambitious in overhauling and upgrading what Britain will look like.

01:07The big question, though, is whether the money will be there to spend what is actually quite elaborate plans

01:14to take our Army, Air Force, Navy, our cyber and space capabilities into another place.

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