Jesse Norman

Jesse Norman

Conservative — Hereford and South Herefordshire

Speaking in the House of Commons on 14 October 2024

Debate

Global Combat Air Programme

Contribution

I apologise if I was hypnotised by your gaze, Mr Speaker. I worry about the Government’s grip on strategy all together. First, they have given away the Chagos islands before the strategic defence review. Now they are putting at risk the global combat air programme by including it within the SDR. Is the Minister aware of the extreme efforts that our partners in Italy and Japan, visited by the Defence Committee in the last Parliament, have made to discharge their side of the bargain—in Japan’s case for the first time since the second world war in international procurement outside the USA? What measures is he taking to reassure them about the centrality and importance of the programme?

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