Al Carns: “I cannot in good conscience stand at the dispatch box and defend a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the…”

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

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.

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.

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