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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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All parties are ducking the challenge of defence spending

Kemi Badenoch’s ambition to build a missile defence system to protect the skies over the British Isles has sown some confusion.

A party press release excitedly likened it to Israel’s world-famous anti-missile defences used to shoot down hostile rockets and drones over its larger cities, describing it as “in essence, a British ‘iron dome’”.

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