Wes Streeting: “Our nuclear-armed submarines are essential to keeping the UK secure, acting as the ultimate deterrent to our adversaries…”

You can understand why, in a defence context, you don’t just take off all of the regulatory oversight and constraints because we are talking about lethal capability.

I’ve reached the same conclusion as every prime minister since Boris Johnson, including this one, which is the capabilities provided by that base makes it extremely unwise and a risk not worth taking to have legal uncertainty.

I think there is clearly more to do, as evidenced by what we saw last night.

It is simply irresponsible, not to mention inaccurate, to suggest that the UK is incapable of defending the Falkland Islands.