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Wes Streeting: “So in the face of those threats, which are not hypothetical but real, and not somewhere else but increasingly here, we…”

On the recordOctober 22, 2026
So in the face of those threats, which are not hypothetical but real, and not somewhere else but increasingly here, we have to step up and take seriously our national resilience as well as our national defence.
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Wes Streeting
Labour Party

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Emphasizing the need for national resilience.

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