Shadow Treasury minister Gareth Davies urges the government to “stick to their promise to meet 2.5% of GDP on defence spending” claiming they “have not actually set out a timetable for the timetable” to do this. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Government is about making decisions and choices based on the funding and money that you have available.
00:06Labour have chosen to put up taxes by £40 billion, which will not grow our economy,
00:10which ultimately would help with spending on defence as a growing economy helps the exchequer.
00:16But this was a pre-election promise by Labour.
00:19They need to stick to their promise to meet 2.5% of GDP on defence spending in a very uncertain world.
00:26And at this point in time, they've not set out a timetable for meeting that 2.5%.
00:33In fact, they've not actually set out a timetable for the timetable.
00:36And so they urgently need to clarify this for our military leaders.