My Lords, as the noble Baroness mentioned Lossiemouth, and as I had the good fortune to be the Member of Parliament for RAF Leuchars for some 28 years, let me ask her a question about the Royal Air Force. Why have the Government refused in this review to commit to purchase any more F35 Lightning aircraft? Does this mean that, as will be the case when the carrier “Queen Elizabeth” deploys to the Far East in the summer, it will always have to rely in part on American aircraft and United States Marine Corps pilots?
Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 23 March 2021.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper.
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2019-21
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