The present Defence Secretary was chair of the Conservative party until 2016. Is it not also a fact that, when the Conservative party was in coalition government, it cut the defence budget by 18% and not only reduced the size of the Army but made people compulsorily redundant? Had a Labour Government done that, we would have heard howls and cries from Conservative Members.
Defence
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Beamish
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 7 May 2024.
It occurred during Debate on Defence.
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