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Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he’s open to Germany joining a GCAP programme. The scheme is about developing the next generation of fighter aircraft and already involves the UK, Italy and Japan. His comments come following the official launch of a joint UK-Germany security partnership to protect both countries against cyber attacks and hybrid threats. 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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00:00We are talking today about defense collaboration, and I've indicated to the Chancellor in our discussion prior to this ratification
00:11our openness to Germany joining GCAP, the next generation of fighter aircraft, and that is something that we seek to
00:24progress in the coming period working with our other partners, Italy and Japan.
00:30In relation to that as well. Of course, we need deeper economic cooperation, and today new partnerships on quantum with
00:41a significant multi-billion pound investment between our two countries, a tech corridor, when we will work to partner clusters
00:51and businesses in the UK and Germany on AI and tech more broadly, which is very, very exciting.

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