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🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Page 94, the Private Eye podcast. |
0:03.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94. |
0:06.0 | My name is Andrew Hunter Murray, and this week we are talking about defense and about homes. |
0:12.0 | Firstly, the Integrated Review, officially titled Global Britain in a Competitive Age. |
0:17.0 | It's an enormous review of Britain's defense and security over the rest of this century. |
0:22.0 | How Britain is going to be fit for purpose, particularly with reference to its armed forces. |
0:27.0 | It's just been published and I'm going to be speaking to Jane McKenzie and Solomon Hughes |
0:30.0 | about which bits of the armed services have been treated well in it, |
0:33.0 | and which bits might not have been in terms of kit capability and recruitment. |
0:38.0 | I'm also going to be talking to Heather Mills about park homes. |
0:41.0 | These are beautiful leafy bits of the country, perfectly ready for retirement. |
0:46.0 | They're also open to sharp practice by various unscrupulous site owners |
0:50.0 | who have been getting into the magazine recently for their bad behaviour. |
0:54.0 | But first, defense. |
0:56.0 | At the launch of the Conservative manifesto, all the way back in November 2019, unimaginably distant now, |
1:03.0 | Boris Johnson said to his listeners, |
1:05.0 | we will not be cutting our armed services in any form. |
1:08.0 | We will be maintaining the size of our armed services. |
1:11.0 | That has turned out not to be exactly true. |
1:14.0 | A newly published report, the Integrated Review of Britain's Security and Defense Capabilities, |
1:20.0 | has just been published. |
1:22.0 | And there have been lots of headlines about Britain raising the theoretical maximum number of its nuclear weapons. |
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