When the world is arming and aggression is rising, the best way to avoid war is to prepare for it.

The best way to defend is to deter, to have the strength to make your adversaries think again before they act.

We will keep the UK safe and secure long into the future.

We are raising it to 2.7 per cent, putting us on a trajectory to reach 3 per cent in the next Parliament, which must be the number one priority at the next spending review.

We can't just spend more. We've got to spend better.

Instead, it is funded by reallocating spending from across Government departments, reallocating capital budgets by one penny in every pound, while still maintaining public investment at the highest sustained levels since the 1970s.

This game-changing investment will strengthen our Armed Forces on land, at sea and in the air, ensuring our servicemen and women have the cutting-edge capabilities they need to deter evolving threats and keep the British people safe.

By any measure, this is a huge historic shift for our nation and a legacy in which I take pride.

This record investment puts the security of the British public first, transforming our Armed Forces and giving them the funding and equipment they need to fight and defend our nation.

[The Dip] is something which any Labour prime minister would want to stand on, because the first duty of any prime minister is the defence and security of the country.

I am absolutely certain that this is the platform on which whoever comes after me can build.

We’ve looked at this very carefully, but the fact is doing this through borrowing will push interest rates higher at a time when £1 in every £10 already goes on paying their interest.

Some capital projects, for example, on roads and energy, which are important but not immediately vital, will no longer go ahead as planned.

But this is about taking the necessary choices, the right choices to protect our nation.

Of course, I have to balance that against investment in the military capability that we need.

They call for transparency and accountability for everybody else. When they have giant questions of their own to answer, nothing to see here, don't want to know, don't want to have an inquiry.

On this question, it is really a serious set of questions that need to be answered by the SNP. They simply refuse to do so.

I did ask him, and I did not accept his explanation. That is why I sacked him.

Fewer Channel crossings mean fewer asylum seekers need to be housed as the system is "more under control" than it was under the Tories.

One of the tests of an outgoing prime minister is whether you leave the country in a better state than what you found it, and I am leaving it in a better state.

It is very hot and obviously schools will have to take the appropriate measures and each school will gauge for itself what the measures are.

We’re having Cobra meetings at the official level to monitor what’s going on, give the appropriate advice.

I will do that making sure that there is an orderly transition, and that is what I am going to do.

I’m going to be professional, I’m going to have foremost in my mind a sense of service and duty that has driven me as Prime Minister.

I will continue to faithfully serve my country to make sure that any disruption is absolutely minimised.