ORAL QUESTION TO THE PRIME MINISTER

WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 2008

Mr. Soames: There are millions of people who are suffering financial hardship because of the Prime Minister’s mismanagement of the economy. Will he assure the House that, in the inevitable cuts to the Budget that are to follow his profligacy, he will leave the defence budget alone so that British troops may continue to fight as they are?

The Prime Minister: Public spending will continue to grow, and we are not going to get in the position of the last Conservative Government, who cut defence spending by 20 per cent.

Hansard

Volume 483

No 170

Columns 720 – 721

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT

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