Back Bbc Badenoch says Tories would bring in £10bn UK air defence system as she's questioned over cost
Asked her party's latest defence announcement - to create a defence system named "Britannia Shield" - she says it is a missile defence system that is needed because warfare is changing.
She says she has been listening to people like Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky and it is clear that global threats today "are different".
The policy would involve "investing £1bn a year over 10 years" so if a hostile country fires a drone or poses another threat to the UK, "we're able to protect ourselves".
Asked whether the system - compared to Israel's Iron Dome - would be different to the Israeli one, she says that "what we are seeing with drone technology is that people can get close enough to fire drones at the UK". She says this is what is being seen at bases like Cyprus.
She says the "Conservatives are thinking the future", adding that they have explained where the money to pay for it would come from.
On Labour, she says: "I want our government to be doing something like this but they're not talking defence at all." She says the country "need[s] to start getting ready now".
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