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Easy Street
BAES will be keen to play the ‘jobs’ card but that is full of weaknesses for Cummings to exploit: witness for one the difficulty in exporting anything.
That'll be the UK that is the 3 or 4th largest defence exporter in the world? Going to have to go some to move up that ladder, given who's above us.
It will be interesting to see how DC squares "the MIC" with the defence jobs in the North and Scotland argument. Interestingly, many of the "inefficiencies" are entangled with process to ensure VFM and prevent fraud, as well as annualised budgets for capital projects - which John Parker had as the most important fix in his shipbuilding strategy and which strangely has yet to win HMT approval......