Rishi Sunak Unveils £5bn Extra Defence Spending Ahead Of US Aukus Summit – UK Politics Live

The updated integrated review includes a foreword from Rishi Sunak. This is what he says in it about China.

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China poses an epoch-defining challenge to the type of international order we want to see, both in terms of security and values – and so our approach must evolve. We will work with our partners to engage with Beijing on issues such as climate change. But where there are attempts by the Chinese Communist Party to coerce or create dependencies, we will work closely with others to push back against them. And we are taking new action to protect ourselves, our democracy and our economy at home.

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Cleverly starts by saying the integrated review published two years ago set out how the UK would thrive in a more complicated age.

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It showed how the government would use “the combined might of every part of government to ensure that our country remains safe, prosperous and influential into the 2030s”, he says.

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He says the approach was right. He goes on:

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On every continent of the world, the United Kingdom walks taller today than it has done for many years.

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This provokes some laughter.

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James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, is now making his statement to MPs about the updated integrated defence and security review.

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Humza Yousaf has said he would shift the campaign for independence into “fifth gear” if he wins the SNP leadership, following a suggestion from a colleague that it should “go down a gear”, PA Media reports.

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Ben Macpherson, the minister for social security in the Scottish government, said it would take longer than the short or medium term for Scotland to become a successful independent country. Writing in Scotland on Sunday yesterday, Macpherson said:

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Any reckless, overly disruptive path to statehood would quickly make our quality of life in Scotland poorer. Better to go down a gear and take the journey at a reasonably safe speed than crash trying to rush things.

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Today, on a visit to Stirling, Yousaf, the health secretary in the Scottish government and one of the three SNP leadership candidates, said he disagreed. Asked about Macpherson’s comment, he replied:

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I have the opposite view, I think we should be ramping up, not ramping down activity.

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If I was the first minister I’d put us into fifth gear – let alone take it down a gear.

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There’s a number of prospectus papers I would commit to publishing around the case for independence as soon as I become first minister.

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But also, on day one, we’ve got to kick start the Yes movement.

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