The right hon. Gentleman and I are both former Armed Forces Ministers. I have sat on the Defence Committee for five years, and he has served far longer than me and is now our excellent vice-Chairman. He can attest to the fact that the Committee has been warning about the increasing Russian threat for several years. Some of us were derided as hawks who always said the Russians were coming. Well, the Russians have now well and truly turned up, so the Committee was basically right. Does he agree that we must now review the entire integrated review, because what happened two weeks ago was a complete game changer in security terms?
Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22
Proceeding contribution from
Mark Francois
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 March 2022.
It occurred during Estimates day on Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22.
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