Foreign secretary makes major speech setting out his stall for leadership of Tory party
The UK will need to double defence spending over the next decade, revive its frayed democracy and become an incubator of artificial intelligence-related technologies if the country is to renew after Brexit, the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said in a major speech setting out his stall to be the next Conservative leader.
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