Defence Sec: It's a bad day for Putin

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Mr Healey hails the UK's committment to buy a fleet of new fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapon. John Healey attends the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands. Among other matters, members are to approve a new defence investment plan that raises target for defense spending to 5% of GDP.  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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00:00We're facing increasing threats. We're facing new nuclear risks. We set these out in the

00:05Strategic Defence Review we published three weeks ago, and that recommended two things. It recommended

00:10that we, the UK, looked at enhancing our participation in this existing NATO nuclear

00:16mission, and that we looked at purchasing this new type of jet, the F-35As. And today we announced

00:23that we're taking action on both of those. We're doing it because it's the UK stepping up to

00:29reinforce the collective deterrence that NATO can offer through this nuclear mission.

00:34But also it will strengthen the British industrial base, because this is a programme that supports

00:3920,000 jobs across the country. It supports more than 100 companies in the wider supply chain. So

00:47this is a good day for NATO. It's a good day for Britain's industrial base. It's a bad day for

00:53Putin. And it allows Britain to play a bigger role in NATO, demonstrating the fact that this

01:00is a government with a NATO first commitment, because NATO is the way that we maintain our

01:07deterrence, we make our country safer, and then we make our country stronger abroad as well.

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