Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, Prime Minister's Question Time Special,

where we skim through the back and forth in Parliament and find out if ever a question is

liable to be answered. I'm Ian Tinymice. And I'm Simon Sandsbury. Yes. So will we am

amazed people and discover that questions have actually been answered?

Well, we're back after, I mean, obviously Parliament's had its Easter break.

We've had our Easter break.

Everybody's had the Easter Day.

We're starting to gear ourselves up for the old May the 7th, the local elections.

And yeah, before we get into those,

let's, shall we enjoy the hurly-burly of the dispatch box and PM?

Yeah, let's get right into it.

Mr. Speaker, that was a very interesting answer from the Prime Minister.

Lord Robertson, who authored the Government's Strategic Defence Review,

has said the Prime Minister has a corrosive complacency when it comes to defence.

Why did he say that?

Mr. Speaker, let me start by saying I respect Lord Robertson.

And I thank him again. I thank him again for carrying out the strategic review.

My responsibility is to keep the British people safe, and that is a duty I take seriously.

That is why I don't agree with his comments.

Last February, that was seven months after taking office,

I took the decision to increase defence spending from 2.3 to 2.6%, paid by by a difficult decision

on overseas aid. Last June at the NATO summit, I committed to raising core defence spending to 3.5%.

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