Dan Jarvis: “Operations like this require skill, professionalism and courage. I pay tribute to our armed forces personnel and all…”

My priority now is to make sure that our armed forces have the resources that they need to do a very difficult job of work that’s being asked of them.

We live in an increasingly dangerous and uncertain time, and it's deployments like this, supported by allies and partners including Iceland, that improve our deterrence and defence as part of Nato.

I have a responsibility to get it right. There will now be a change of prime minister, there will be no change in the urgent need to produce the defence investment plan.

That is the challenge that we have at a point of constrained fiscal resource, and I will be working with my colleagues across government to make sure that we're in a position to do that.