The Secretary of State is a thoughtful man, and today he has announced that we are going to be spending £50 billion on defence, at a time when every other Government Department is under financial pressure. He has also said that he predicts that this country will be at war within seven years. Does he have any idea or process to bring about more peace and rapprochement in the world, and less military threat? Or are we going to go on, year by year, increasing expenditure on defence and potentially being involved in more and more military conflicts? Does he have any idea different from that?
Defence Command Paper Refresh
Proceeding contribution from
Jeremy Corbyn
(Independent (affiliation))
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 July 2023.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Defence Command Paper Refresh.
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