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WITH THE impeccable timing for which this government is becoming known, on the day that Russia (might have) fired an ICBM into Ukraine and (definitely)

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OUTSIDE of the media frenzy of the government’s public spending plans and ministers’ delight in freebies, the Secretary of State for Defence, The Rt Hon