Strategic Defence Review 2025 - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:36 pm on 8 December 2025.

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Photo of Lord Robertson of Port Ellen Lord Robertson of Port Ellen Labour 2:36, 8 December 2025

My Lords, I first declare an interest as a senior counsellor with the Cohen Group. Does my noble friend agree that the importance of the strategic defence review, which needs to get through to the wider public, is that Britain is under attack, both at home and from abroad, and that the transformation of defence, which is what the strategic defence review is all about, is essential for the nation’s safety? In the light of the stunningly depressing national security review published by the Americans last Friday, even more needs to be done to warn our public about the risks that we now face, and which we might now have to face without the United States of America?