Defence of the Realm – How will Britain’s next Government handle a new age of insecurity?

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The West’s era of supremacy is over. Britain’s next Prime Minister will face the most dangerous security environment since the Second World War – a new age of critical insecurity. From Ukraine to the Middle East to China/Taiwan and beyond, the threats are piling up: cyberattacks, nuclear intimidation, assassinations on our territory and more. How will the next Prime Minister handle them? And have Brexit and our political instability left us too weakened to withstand them? Gavin Esler find out from Dr Christine Cheng – national security lecturer at King’s College London and chair of the Lib Dems’ National Security Group – and the UK’s first-ever National Security Advisor Lord Peter Ricketts. Support This Is Not A Drill on Patreon to get early episodes, merchandise and more. Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com. Executive Producer Martin Bojtos. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. This Is Not A Drill is a Podmasters production podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.0	Now is the moment for Britain to choose its future.
1:15.8	I didn't think that in my lifetime
1:19.2	I would see Russian tanks entering a European country again.
1:23.6	As we saw those pictures from Kiev, I understood the post-war era is over, and a new age of
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