This was contained, the paper said, in a report from the Parliamentary Defence and Security Committee.

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The Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey and a supporting cast of senior officers appear before the Defence Committee who are investigating the Strategic Defence and Security Review and the National Security Strategy.

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The group - foreign affairs and defence spokesman Menzies Campbell, chief whip Paul Tyler, campaigns chief Nick Harvey and social security select committee chairman Archy Kirkwood - are expected to back the same candidate.

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