Al Carns: “Until the country was spending what it needed to spend on defence, I would keep making that case from the backbenches.”

He is a man of his word and he has made it clear that he will deliver on the commitments that led him to leave government in the first place.

Internal blood letting was not in the party's best interests

I said so publicly and I still stand by every word.

I resigned in June because I did not believe the defence funding on the table was adequate for the threats this country faces. I said so publicly and I still stand by every word.