AUKUS Defence Partnership

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:16 pm on 14 March 2023.

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Photo of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards Independent, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr 3:16, 14 March 2023

Diolch, Mr Deputy Speaker. Is it not the case that major defence announcements such as this one should not be considered in isolation? By far the biggest foreign policy challenge that we face is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Western strategies are largely dependent on economic sanctions against Russia, but those sanctions have been blunted by the fact that Russia has been able to find other markets with which to trade. What assessment has the Minister made of whether the AUKUS security pact will help or hinder our strategies to bring Russia’s war to an end?