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Jane Mackenzie

Jane Mackenzie

Journalist and international correspondent for Private Eye magazine; regular guest on Page 94 podcast discussing UK politics, investigations, and current affairs.

Jul 14, 2026

28:19
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28:19
[laughs] The kind of small drones that we're working with Ukraine with, like cheap and cheerful, um, and, and great.
28:28
But when it comes to very big spends, everything gets caught up in a sort of defense procurement, lovely dinners.
28:37
There's, um, there's a great deal of the budget, I think, goes into the defense sector, wining and dining, um, the people who are, uh, buying the things.
28:47
So obviously some of the money has to go there.
28:49
However, every quarter there is a, a hospitality register showing what people who are two star and above within the military have, have had, and, and every time there's a great many agreeable dinners on the list.
29:03
Um-

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34:10
But do you think procurement just needs to change completely? I mean, it sounds like th- it's just so bedeviled, and it has been for so long.

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