Tories' defence policy
Little has been heard of Nicholas Soames, the Tories' defence spokesman, since Oliver Letwin revealed his common sense plan to cut the defence budget by 5% over the first two years' of a Conservative government.In many ways I'm not surprised. Soames must be at war with Letwin and Howard*. Only a month ago, in a speech titled 'Defence Budged in new crisis' he argued, "We aren't putting enough money into defence and we are going to have to find ways of getting more in."
Luckily Letwin is the future of the party, Soames the past.
* Perhaps Soames could return to his previous role as the-fat-man-who-goes-on-TV-to-defend-his-friend-of-the-Prince-of-Wales, if today's Daily Mail revelations are true.
posted by Matthew @ 2/21/2004 01:21:00 PM
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