Conservatives promise new National Security Council will end blight of sofa government

By Andrew Porter, Political Editor 1000PM GMT 09 March 2010

In a bid to show that a destiny Tory Government would not trip in to the sofa-style administration department run by Tony Blair, William Hague, the shade unfamiliar secretary, will currently contend that the new physique would be a absolute centre of decision-making.

In a critical debate on unfamiliar process Mr Hague will additionally explain that Labour right away selects parliamentary possibilities with "hardened" traffic kinship links, who are resistant to modernisation.

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He will contend "Five some-more years of Gordon Brown would meant that this nation would be compared opposite the universe with unsure and unaffordable debt, miss of fortify over spending and traffic kinship power."

Evidence to the Iraq Inquiry has strengthened the box for an renovate in how big unfamiliar process and counterclaim decisions are taken, Mr Hague will say.

He will contend "A supervision with a correct National Security Council would not have taken critical National Security decisions, as Clare Short described the scene, in meetings that there were never papers. There were small chats about things.

"In the new government, if elected, decisions about inhabitant security and general family will be taken together, with the recommendation of the Armed Services Chiefs, the Intelligence Agencies and the Foreign Office experts accessible and in meetings that are scrupulously minuted and recorded."

He combined that the security legislature would have ensured that a preference to cut the helicopter bill would not have been taken whilst operations in Iraq were underneath way.

Either the Prime Minister or the Foreign Secretary would chair the meetings that would take place "on a really unchanging basis." It would cover the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Defence, and the Department for International Development.

Gordon Brown set up a National Security Committee of the Cabinet usually after he came to energy in 2007, but the physique has met usually 3 times.

Mr Hague will additionally explain that the bequest of the Labour Government will be that the mercantile decrease of new years has marked down Britains "clout" in universe affairs.

He will contend that underneath David Cameron the supervision would find to hindrance the wearing away of Britains general position.