Speaking at a Reform 'Back to black' seminar today, Douglas Carswell MP discussed how to ensure that we get better value from our defence budet. He explained how current procurement policy is failing our armed forces, and why we need more "off the shelf" procurement".
Watch Douglas argue that if there was only one chain of restaurants you would expect bad service and overcharging - the same applies for defence procurement:
He explains that defence procurement is not a suitable method of preserving jobs and claims it would have been cheaper to pay every Briton involved in building the new Apache helicopter a million pounds:
