UK weapons are outdated says Osborne
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne launched a searing attack on Labour today for leaving Britain's armed forces dangerously outdated.
As Tory members gathered in Birmingham for the party's first conference since it entered coalition, Mr Osborne accused the previous government of spending billions of pounds on weapons and equipment only suitable for the Cold War era.
He also said the defence budget left by the previous government was "the most chaotic, the most disorganised, the most overcommitted".
The chancellor said: "We are going to have a bunch of kit that makes us extremely well prepared to fight the Russians on the north German plain. That's not a war we are likely to face."
But he admitted there was not much the coalition could do about the problems: "We are bound into contracts and that's just a fact of life."
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