Al Carns: “We ask soldiers to fight for this country. In return we owe them the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them…”

I want to see a higher percentage for uncrewed systems, AI, data – data is the new gunpowder – and we’ve got to move that forward if we are going to win the next war.

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.

Is it the healthiest nation in Europe, is it adding a trillion pounds onto our GDP, is national security important, how do we get the next generation to have a better deal than the last generation et cetera, et cetera.

Spending 2.68% of GDP by 2030 is not a serious answer to a world where the character of warfare has changed fundamentally.