I didn’t think the funding settlement was correct for defence, and I didn’t agree with the defence investment plan, which I thought was looking at how to fight the last war rather than the next one.
Commenting on the government's defence funding and investment plan.
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I have said that there are issues facing this department that do not lend themselves to easy answers, and that there needs to be agreement throughout the Government about the scale of the challenges we face.
Until the country was spending what it needed to spend on defence, I would keep making that case from the backbenches.
To take another role now, in another department, would suggest that it has.
I generally think Keir Starmer is a good man, he’s an honest man, and he’s an integral man.
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