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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 4:39 pm on 12 June 1985.

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Photo of Mr Michael Heseltine Mr Michael Heseltine The Secretary of State for Defence 4:39, 12 June 1985

I do not want to get the signals to the Fleet wrong on this. When we are fighting this land war in Europe, how are we to get the stores across the Atlantic to support the armed battle without ships defended by the navies of the Western Alliance?