Al Carns: “I didn’t think the funding settlement was correct for defence, and I didn’t agree with the defence investment plan…”

I generally think Keir Starmer is a good man, he’s an honest man, and he’s an integral man.

The argument I resigned over has not yet been settled.

But we are fighting amongst each other to get more money for the key unifying principle of the of any government, which is to protect this nation.

We face a more unstable and dangerous world than at any point in recent decades, and having spent most of my adult life in uniform, I understand what public service in such a moment demands.