Wes Streeting: “Where we need vision, we have a vacuum. Where we need direction, we have drift.”

I am proud of the fact that in my lifetime we’ve gone from gay people not being allowed to serve in the military to a gay defence secretary.

Next week, what you will see is a Prime Minister that runs towards big and difficult issues rather than runs away from them.

I don't want anyone who has the ambition and talent to join our armed forces to be deterred, so it's contingent on us to make sure that we've got our act together.

It also means pushing the frontier of defence innovation, exactly as we are doing today, and it means keeping our people at the heart of defence.