Dan Jarvis: “Understands the importance of defending our nation and will make sure we’ve got the resources we need to keep the…”

We live in an increasingly dangerous and uncertain time, and it's deployments like this, supported by allies and partners including Iceland, that improve our deterrence and defence as part of Nato.

We should be clear-eyed about the fact that the threat from Russia exists in every domain, under the water, on the water, on the land, in the sky, in space and in cyberspace as well.

We’ve got the resources we need to keep the country safe

What I absolutely will want to see is that in the next spending review we commit the resources to evidence the trajectory to 3.5%.