Dearlove criticizes UK budget for failing to prioritize national security and defense spending first.
“how could you possibly have a budget statement in parliament in the current state that we're in where the chancellor of the exchequer doesn't refer to national security and defense?”
Dearlove says UK must cut welfare spending to fund defense, requiring economic sacrifices.
“And the most important way in The UK to do this is to cut the welfare budget and to spend it on defense. And we have to make sacrifices.”
Dearlove criticizes UK government for wrapping intelligence budget into defense budget to inflate spending figures.
“Actually, at the moment, and I'm pretty critical of this, the overall SIV has been wrapped up into the defense budget to make the defense budget look bigger, which is a bit of a cheat because the government are very keen to show that they're increasing defense spending.”
Dearlove says UK needs 5% GDP defense spending, government should cut welfare but won't due to left wing influence.
“They need to up to 5%, and all they have to do is to cut the welfare budget. But of course, this government is the prisoner of its left wing and they can't do that.”
Dearlove argues security is government's first responsibility and UK must cut welfare to reach 5% defense spending.
“That's too little, too late. They need to up to 5%, and all they have to do is to cut the welfare budget.”