Q: You say your Iron Dome will protect the whole of the UK, and bases abroad. But Sir Richard Barrons, the former general, has said that a proper air defence like this would cost up to £100bn.Badenoch says Barrons is referring to an Israel-style Iron Dome.She says she is referring to something different. She says the UK should be able to defend itself from, for example, someone on a boat firing a drone at the system.Q: But it is nothing like Israel’s Iron Dome. It is a gimmick, isn’t it?Badenoch replied: double quotation markIt’s not going to be exactly like the Iron Dome.
We haven’t called it an Iron Dome. But, in fact, they did. This is what they sent out to journalists yesterday.Press release Photograph: Conservative party
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