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Richard Fuller, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says the government must fund defence properly to protect the UK after a Royal Navy serviceman has been charged with spying for a foreign power. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00It is another aspect of the different levels of conflict we're now seeing under the radar screen of direct military
00:06conflict from our main adversaries, including Russia.
00:10We've had people in this country attacked and murdered because of espionage activities by Russia.
00:15We are constantly under cyber attack threats.
00:17The most important thing we should do is commit the resources, as the Conservative Party has said that we will
00:24do, to fund defence at 3% and then start forward with programs like Britannia Shield, which would protect British
00:32people.
00:32We need to start going on that now.
00:36But the Chancellor, I'm afraid, at the moment has not said that he will fund defence adequately.

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