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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

The Prime Minister grabbed most of the headlines with an early morning interview and a news conference on Monday the 2nd of June,

but in the Commons, it was the Defence Secretary John Healy who set

out the government's plans to make sure the UK is ready for war. The Strategic Defence Review

has been a long time coming, but an angry common speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, thought he'd heard

it all before and complained that the government had broken the rules

by briefing the media before making an announcement to MPs.

I know that ministers, when they were in opposition, were not slow to complain

when the previous government made major policy announcements outside Parliament.

In fact, the SDR was due June Easter, so I'm sure a day

wouldn't have mattered. When the Defence Secretary John Healy arrived at the dispatch box,

he told the Commons the world had changed and this was the government's response.

A plan to meet the threats we face, a plan to step up on European security and lead in NATO, a plan that

learns the lessons from Ukraine, a plan to seize the defence dividend from our record increase

in defence investment to boost jobs and growth throughout the United Kingdom, and a plan

to put the men and women of our armed forces at the heart of our defence plans. Better pay,

better kit, better housing. The Conservatives shared the speaker's frustration at how the

announcement had been handled. As to the content, the Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartledge

said the government hadn't explained how it was going to pay for the review.

Whilst they may have tried to hide the actual document from us for as long as possible today,

what they cannot hide is what's happened in plain sight. A total unravelling of their

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