James Cook
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1,779 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 19 Sep
James Cook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That is great.
Well, thanks very much, Gary.
It's lovely to talk to you as always.
Thank you.
Now, we're just going to rewind a little bit, Alex, because on Tuesday, you and I talked with Frank Gardner about the dip, the dip, the defence investment plan.
And we were talking to Frank and Chris about it.
And as we were talking, you rightly pointed out that the numbers didn't quite add up.
And that's a bit of an understatement because there's quite a big funding gap, a commitment gap here.
What have we learned about that this morning?
Because Luke Pollard, the Minister for Defence Procurement, has been out talking to all the media on what they call the broadcast round, talking about it.
Do we know any more about what this gap is and how it might be filled, if at all?
I was really struck by the tone and the manner, Alex, of the Prime Minister's answers to Kemi Beidenoch there in terms of defending his legacy and almost the backbench Labour MPs cheering his legacy.
And I was thinking as they were doing it, but you've sacked this guy, basically.
It's quite the contrast, isn't it?
It's such an odd time.
I'll tell you one other thing that occurred to me, Alex, reflecting on Tuesday's episode that we were talking about defence, is that
There seems to be such a mainstream consensus now in favour of increased defence and security spending.
And I just wonder whether the voices of the people in this country who aren't convinced by that are not really being very loudly heard at the moment.
Yeah, and questions in Scotland, Alex, particularly about that nuclear weapons programme, the UK's nuclear weapons programme, because the government, the UK government yesterday was talking about more money going into that to the next generation of nuclear weapons, to improving conditions at the naval base.
just off the Clyde, where the UK's nuclear weapons and the submarines that carry them are based.
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