Strategic Defence Review 2025

Debate between Lord Coaker and Lord Hacking
Friday 18th July 2025

(2 weeks, 5 days ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Coaker Portrait Lord Coaker (Lab)
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Of course.

Lord Hacking Portrait Lord Hacking (Lab)
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On behalf of all of us, I thank my noble friend for his excellent speech. To follow the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup, and the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, it was very reassuring of my noble friend to make the further NATO commitment to raise our defence expenditure to 5% by 2035. But these are peacetime calculations, and if—

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