Dan Jarvis: “The international security is incredibly challenging, and that's why this gathering here today is so particularly…”

This is clearly a stunt from Nigel trying to get in front of the concerns that have been expressed about him accepting £5 million.

Reform did well when people could only judge their promises. Unfortunately for them, their actions will now be judged too.

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%.

I don’t think that has played out particularly well for him.