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Conservative party chairman Kevin Hollinrake says people should be “clear-eyed about the threat that Russia brings”, as he calls on the government to further increase defence spending.

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00:00We should be very worried. I mean, it's not just what people say, it's what people do.
00:03And you've seen this illegal invasion of Ukraine and you've seen incursions.
00:06There was a drone attack on a German airport quite recently.
00:12So people should be, we should be clear-eyed about the threats that Russia brings.
00:18And that brings me to what we spend on our own defence forces.
00:23So we've been saying for years, we've been putting pressure on Keir Starmer.
00:26Now, given the new threats we are seeing from Russia, given what happened in 2022, we should be spending more.
00:32We legislated to increase how much we spent on defence from 2% of GDP to 2.5%, so a
00:4125% increase.
00:43We think that should be increased again to 3%, get to 3% of GDP by 2030.
00:49Andy Burnham is not yet committed to do that. Neither did Keir Starmer.
00:53There's some more words, but there's no spending or not enough spending.
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