Kiran Stacey
speaker
464 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2d ago
Kiran Stacey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 3.
Appearances
Yeah.
But yet the detail of this, you say it was delayed by several months, delayed by nearly a year, this defence investment plan.
And the whole point of it was supposed to be
fleshing out how exactly we're going to meet the objectives set out last year by the government in the Strategic Defence Review.
So the government wants to do a bunch of things, including contributing to Ukraine's safety in the long term, including helping secure the peace if and when it is achieved in the Gulf.
This was details about how it's going to pay the way to do that.
It was overall a £15 billion package.
Some of that was paid for by taking money off other departments.
Some of it was paid for by reallocating spending within the MOD.
£5 billion is going towards drones.
And that's why we're here today.
That's why aviation is so important.
It's right at the heart of this defensive investment plan.
Because if there's one thing we've learned from Ukraine, it's that drones will be absolutely at the centre of whatever war we next find ourselves in.
No, not quite.
Actually, it's going to bring our defence spending up to more like 2.6, 2.7% with an ambition to get it to 3% in the next parliament.
But this has kind of been the crux of the entire internal government row we've had over the last few months.
Could we get it to that 3% in this plan?
And in the end, the government has fallen short of that.
So that's actually quite an important distinction.
Showing 201–220 of 464 · page 11 of 24
← Previous
Next →