Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 December 1973.

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Photo of Mr Winston Churchill Mr Winston Churchill , Stretford 12:00, 12 December 1973

While I strongly agree with the right hon. and learned Member's latter point, may I put it to him that it is absurd that we should judge our defence expenditure by comparing it with that of our allies? Surely that is an irrelevance. It is more appropriate to judge it by the defence expenditure of potential aggressors.