Wes Streeting

I also want to state personally my enormous thanks to our police, our counter-terrorism police, emergency services and the security services for their hard work to defend our base at RAF Fairford.

We are grateful for the vigilance of the members of the public.

In the dangerous and turbulent world we find ourselves in, investment in defence is a price worth paying.

As and when we can, we will report back to the public about these individuals and about the nature of the threat.

We can be reassured that this is being dealt with.

This world-first access to real battlefield data will allow British companies to continue pushing the frontier of defence innovation, deterring our enemies and making us safer at home as well as further strengthening Ukraine.

Things are moving at warp speed. We have to be ready for space at the next battleground, and we are.

More importantly, we would be wrong to prepare only to fight a current war.

We cannot afford to make the cliched mistake of fighting the last war.

It is difficult and necessarily painstaking work, but it is necessary.

Yes, we have to, because the US doesn’t support it.

This is, I think, probably I’d describe it as the latest iteration of what has been a long-running space race.

What we know about space, as with every other domain, is that there are adversaries out there who are developing the capability to disrupt and to harm our interests.

This century will depend on control of space.

Control of the waves was the essential ingredient in 19th-century deterrence.

What President Trump said yesterday wasn't new but I think it does provide absolute clarity that his position on this Chagos deal as currently drafted is not changing

We have to review the deal because the United States doesn't support it

Both the prime minister and I heard loud and clear on our first visits to Kyiv the importance of supporting Ukraine through this winter, as Putin prepares to use winter as a weapon by continuing barbaric attacks against civilian and energy…

And I think, 'great, here we are in the third decade of the 21st century it doesn't matter, brilliant'.

In my first week, someone in the MoD said to me: 'As a gay man, I'm really proud that we have our first gay defence secretary - It means a lot to many of us who remember the bad old days.'

An unbelievable volume, because people cannot cope with the idea that a gay person might lead the armed forces of the United Kingdom.

I have experienced more online homophobia in the last three weeks than I have in my entire life.

Ukraine is pushing the frontier of defence innovation as they bravely resist Putin’s illegal invasion.

What I think my resignation did that week was force choices for others.