On Friday 12th June Bob appeared on BBC 1's Daily Politics with Andrew Neil. He argued that we needed more money to be spent on Defence. Two per cent of GNP is not enough considering the Russian Threat has increased remarkably since 2010 and in the last 5 years the result of the so-called Arab Spring has been a blossoming of terrorism which most definitely impacts on our security. Both those factors must be placed into the key assumptions of the up and coming Strategic Defence and Security Review. He argued that we must not be lulled into reducing our Armed Forces even further - they are far too small already.