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How concerned should we be about what's going on with this spy ship
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Of course we should be concerned. These are potentially putting our service personnel at risk
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our pilots of our aircraft. So of course we should be concerned and at times like this
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we should definitely support the government in making it strong language in terms of pushing
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back against Putin. Well we did hear from the Defence Secretary yesterday, didn't we
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speaking directly to Putin, saying that we would respond, we would be ready to act if the Russian
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spy ship went into British waters. But it came on the same day, didn't it, as the Defence Committee
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report that said that the UK lacks a plan to defend itself against an overseas territory and a
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military attack. So what do we do to get ourselves ready in this dangerous world? Do we need to spend
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more on defence? Do we need to increase the size of our army? What would the Conservatives be doing
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Well, definitely we need to invest more in our defence capabilities. That's why we said we should move to 3% of GDP spend by 2030
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The government so far failed to meet that commitment. Also, it's ridiculous at these points in time that we're spending, you know
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a fortune, 30-odd billion quid, on basically the surrender deal with the Chagos
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We should be spending that kind of money on our defence capability. and of course we should be modernising our defence estate
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making sure it's fit for purpose for the modern era. That's all those things we want to do
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Our Shadow Defence Secretary, James Cartlidge, has been extremely strong on that
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Those kind of commitments have not yet been matched by the government. We very much hope they'll match them
