Via David Cameron: My radical plan for Britain’s armed forces – Telegraph:
Taking full charge of the issue for the first time, the Prime Minister disclosed that more Chinook helicopters would be made available for British troops in Afghanistan.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph on the eve of the Tory party conference, he pledged that Britain’s Armed Forces would be given “everything that they need” to fight the Taliban.
Even after key spending decisions were made in the coming months, he said Britain would “go on having one of the largest defence budgets in the world”.
He lambasted Labour for leaving his government a “complete car crash” of a defence budget – overspent by £38?billion and with major decisions not taken.
Tags: Armed Forces, Budget, Defence
