UK Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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After six months of Republican obstruction, President Biden today signed into law a massive foreign aid package with nearly $61 billion earmarked for Ukraine. But the months of inaction highlighted Ukraine’s vulnerability to western politics, as well as a worrying shortfall in defense production across NATO. That's why British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans to lift UK defense spending by almost a hundred billion dollars, investing 2.5% of GDP by 2030. Labour MP David Lammy could become the country's next foreign secretary and he's making a case for what he calls “progressive realism.” He joins Christiane to discuss. Also on today's show: author Salman Rushdie; Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer, The Atlantic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.0	Today I'm announcing the biggest strengthening of our national defense for a generation.
0:44.0	With USA to Ukraine finally on its way, Britain's Conservative Prime Minister says he's putting
0:49.7	the economy on a war footing.
0:51.9	I ask David Lammy, who could be the UK's next Foreign Secretary
0:56.0	about the Labour Party's commitment to NATO and Ukraine. Then...
1:00.0	What I really felt is that it was impossible to write anything else.
1:04.0	It would seem kind of absurd to write something else
1:08.0	until I had dealt with this subject.
1:10.5	From Salma Rushti, a deeply personal account of surviving the assassin's blade in knife meditations after an attempted murder and Walter Isakson speaks to Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum
1:24.1	about the defeat of the pro- Putin caucus in the Republican Party. The Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. After six months of Republican obstruction to on dollars earmarked for Ukraine. Here he is speaking after he signed the bill into law.
2:05.0	It's going to make America safer, it's going to make the world safer, and it continues
2:11.3	America's leadership in the world and everyone knows it.
2:14.0	It gives vital support to America's partners and they so they can defend themselves against
2:19.4	threats to their sovereignty and to the lives and freedom of their citizens and it's an
2:25.0	investment in our own security because when our allies are stronger and I want to
2:29.1	make this point again and again when our are stronger, we are stronger. The first billion dollars in aid
2:36.0	is now on its way with weapons and equipment Ukraine desperately needs. But the months of
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