Baroness Butler-Sloss
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Ukraine: Small Boats
Baroness Butler-Sloss Excerpts(7 months, 3 weeks ago)
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Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
I am very disappointed that the noble Lord the admiral does not support the Government’s position on this. An unsafe boat is an unsafe boat. He knows more about them—and ships, of course—than I do. The fact is that the Ukrainians, as far as we are aware, have not even asked for these things, so that judgment does not need to be made.
Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)
If these boats are unsafe, why can the Government not let them have other boats?
Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
As I have just said and will continue to say: because the Ukrainians have not asked for them.