"Thank you very much to Secretary of State for Defence, Grant Shapps for his support.
Conservatives have delivered the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War. Ensuring we remain the largest defence power in Europe.
We do not want to go back to a fragile economy under Labour, driven by unfunded spending, higher taxes on working families and debt piling up for future generations to pay off. And where immigration, crime and defence are not taken seriously.
To safeguard our borders and national security, we are boosting defence spending to our new NATO standard of 2.5% of GDP by 2030. Protecting British interests at home and abroad in an increasingly hostile world.
This is why we are also introducing a year-long full-time placement in the armed forces or cyber defence which will be competitive and paid, so our armed forces recruit and train the brightest and the best.
As well as through our new Defence Innovation Agency, we will scale R&D funding to a minimum of 5% of the defence budget, together with an additional 2% to exploit that R&D, accelerating investments in new weapon systems.
We must increase defence spending and protect our country.
Vote Mims on July 4th
