John Healey: “We will meet our commitments on defence to our international allies.”

But it also threatens our economic security: impacting the family finances of millions of British people.

We have backed British jobs, British skills and British businesses.

But no country can face these pressures alone. And these shocks are being felt worldwide. They’ve been felt in people’s pockets, in their weekly shops, filling up their cars.

The people who best understand what skills employers want, what transport an area needs and where investment can make the biggest difference are those who live there.