this afternoon, asjens stoltenberg has been discussing the war in ukraine, with the big announcement from him today is that finland will join nato, formallyjoining the alliance on tuesday. that join nato, formally joining the alliance on tuesday. that helps turke in alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the fight alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the fight against, - alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the fight against, for- turkey in the fight against, for instance, the pkk, which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by finland and the european union. of course, we work together to fight this type of organisation. it also helps sweden in addressing some of the organised crime that sweden is seeing taking place in its own streets. we know there is a close link between these terrorist organisations and their objectives and organised crime and drug traffic in a country like sweden. i strongly agree that we
Putin is bluffing this war by putting his entire economy onto a war footing in a way that isnt sustainable for russia over the years he would have to continue it for. Its important that the west does not blink. When you see what has happened in kharkiv, the second biggest city in ukraine, it is because, im afraid, the civilised world took their eyes off the ball just for a little while, we saw how long it took to get that package through the us congress because of internal politics there, and this is the actual upshot, this you are blaming the us, then. Im not blaming them but the internal politics meant that the money did not flow in the way that in the uk were giving consistent amounts of money, then we increased it again, added an extra half a billion so we are giving them 3 billion this year, plus different packages. It is important that support is consistent because if you stop these are the problems you see. At the moment it is some villages on the outskirts of kharkiv, and it is
Paying attention the Defence Secretary grant shapps and the man who wants to be Labours Health secretary, Wes Streeting, are both here. If you can, im going to do a bit of a test, grant shapps, the pledges . Growing the economy reducing debt. Bringing down inflation, cutting the inflation and stopping the boats. West meeting . 6500 extra teachers, secure border command, Great British energy, and what is the one i have missed . We can show you. Laughter he has got his pledge card i laughter he has not his ledue card . He has got his pledge card i have not one he has got his pledge card i have got one here he has got his pledge card i have got one here. Crackdown he has got his pledge card i have got one here. Crackdown on got one here. Crackdown on antisocial got one here. Crackdown on antisocial behaviour. Got one here. Crackdown on antisocial behaviour. I got one here. Crackdown on antisocial behaviour. I wasi antisocial behaviour. I was preparing antisocial behaviour. I was preparing
Our integrated review anticipated this and talked about the increasing competition from state based threats and identified these things, but as i said, what is new is the pace and intensity of where we arent seeing these threats emerge, and i commend to everyone the Chatham House speech which talked about this as well where we are seeing these threats. Asjens stoltenberg highlighted, the interconnectedness when you have state supporting each other and working together, that is what we have to recognise has changed. That is why it is important we make the investment and make it now and i believe it is the right thing to do. What was your second question . Inaudible that is the main thing, but the one thing i would point out, because we have been talking a lot about it, we should approach the question from a position of strength and confidence. Ukraine is a good example of that. If you think back a couple of years, and im sure this would be echoed by jens, Special Operation undertook by
this afternoon, asjens stoltenberg has been discussing the war in ukraine, with the big announcement from him today is that finland will join nato, formallyjoining the alliance on tuesday. that join nato, formally joining the alliance on tuesday. that helps turke in alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the fight alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the fight against, - alliance on tuesday. that helps turkey in the fight against, for- turkey in the fight against, for instance, the pkk, which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by finland and the european union. of course, we work together to fight this type of organisation. it also helps sweden in addressing some of the organised crime that sweden is seeing taking place in its own streets. we know there is a close link between these terrorist organisations and their objectives and organised crime and drug traffic in a country like sweden. i strongly agree that we have a com