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🗓️ 19 November 2020
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As Boris Johnson committs billions to the UK defence budget, the biggest investment since the Cold War, Matt Chorley talks national security with David Lidington. Plus, Times columnists Esther Webber and Robert Crampton
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0:00.0 | This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion, |
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1:03.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chorley, |
1:05.9 | bringing you the best of my Times radio show, |
1:07.7 | Monday to Thursday 10 till 1. |
1:09.6 | Boris Johnson's going to war, |
1:11.0 | but at least this time not on his own MPs he's |
1:13.2 | announcing an extra 16 billion pounds for defense but is this a good idea where do the |
1:18.5 | threats come from and should we be worried about autonomous military robots rising up against us? |
1:23.8 | I've been speaking to Sir David Liddington. |
1:25.6 | Former cabinet minister now head of the Roussee Defence Think Tank. |
1:29.0 | He'll tell us where the threats are coming from and whether or not we should be worried |
1:31.9 | about the robots rising up against us. |
1:34.0 | But first it's our columnist panel so it's Thursday so we kick off with Robert Crampton and Esther Weber. |
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