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Defence Policy

My right hon. Friend says that we do not know how much the main Opposition party will spend on defence. There is a clue, however, in the address by the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) to the Conservative party’s annual conference. He promised to restore the three infantry battalions cut by Labour"““once we have seen the MoD’s books and identified the savings to pay for them. A bigger Army for a safer Britain.””" Therefore, he will fund that expansion from other areas of MOD expenditure. There will be no net increase in expenditure.