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Armed Forces: Cuts – <i>Question</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, is it not the harsh, unpalatable truth that we are cutting not into fat or even muscle but now into the very bones of our defence capability? How else can one explain the…

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Armed Forces: Cuts – <i>Question</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, is it not the harsh, unpalatable truth that we are cutting not into fat or even muscle but now into the very bones of our defence capability? How else can one explain the…

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – <i>Statement</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, the Foreign Secretary’s remarks, which the noble Baroness has repeated, sound more like a plea of mitigation than anything else, but a plea of mitigation is effective only if it…

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – <i>Statement</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, the Foreign Secretary’s remarks, which the noble Baroness has repeated, sound more like a plea of mitigation than anything else, but a plea of mitigation is effective only if it…

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Overseas Aid and Defence Expenditure – <i>Question</i> | Lords debates

My Lords, if everything in the garden is lovely, why have the Government reduced their order from Boeing for replacement Apache helicopters from 50 to 38, if it is not from budgetary pressures?

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