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Defence secretary Grant Shapps has said that the UK needs to be "prepared" for war.
Earlier in the week Mr Shapps said that the country was "moving from a post-war to pre-war world" and that "our adversaries are now more connect with each other".
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Shapps told Laura Kuenssberg that the UK "needs to be prepared" as tensions rise in the Middle East.