National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
27 April 2026
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National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) House of Lords
00:04 - 00:23
Speaker 1
Order, order. Welcome to today's sitting of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy and our inquiry into the national conversation on societal resilience. Can thank you to our two witnesses for joining us. And can I ask you now just to very briefly introduce yourselves, doctor Fiona Hill?
00:23 - 00:42
Speaker 2
Oh, me first? Okay. Fiona Hill, I'm a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. I'm also, as some of you were, the chancellor of Durham University here in The UK, and I was with Lord Robertson, one of the members of the strategic, defense, review last year.
00:44 - 01:19
Speaker 3
I'm lord Robertson of Port Ellen, member of the house of lords, chair of the, international relations and defense committee of the, of the house of lords, I was the lead reviewer last year of the Strategic Defense Review. But I'm also chancellor of the University of Dundee, where we have this pairing arrangement with academic the academic side of things. Previously was secretary general of NATO from 1999 to 2003, and secretary of state for defense from 1997 to 1999.
01:20 - 01:48
Speaker 1
Thank you. Thank you both. Well, perhaps starting with you, Lord Robertson, but we had or rather, I had a a meeting with the Latvian speaker and ambassador just last week, and they talked about Latvia being essentially at war with Russia. And there was a tone and urgency in their voices which suggested that this was very real to them. Why do you think that we are not having this national conversation?
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