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ON December 1 I secured a Westminster Hall debate in Parliament on the issue of defence procurement and supply chains.
This has profound implications for Britain’s manufacturing industries, the wider supply chains and the communities within the “left behind” towns that are home to Ministry of Defence suppliers.
We are in the worst economic crisis in living memory. Across the country, unemployment is soaring and could hit over three million by the spring of 2021.
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