Dan Jarvis: “As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham will make sure that we’ve got the investment coming into defence.”

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.

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

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%.

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