Al Carns: “We are asking our Armed Forces to operate in a more dangerous world on a budget written for a calmer one.”

If we’re still using oil and gas [which we are], importing it instead of producing it at home doesn’t change the climate impact. It does change who gets the jobs, who gets the tax revenues to fund our public services and who controls our…

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

To take another role now, in another department, would suggest that it has.

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.