Keir Starmer

Their record is cutting spending. My record is raising it to £300bn, and rising.

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

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

As one of only three nuclear powers in NATO, the UK provides the ultimate guarantee of security for itself and its NATO allies. We are the only European nation which declares our nuclear deterrent to NATO

The SDR made clear that a modernised nuclear deterrent is essential for the defence of the UK. It underpins our security in a new nuclear age and worsening security environment, characterised by Russia’s aggression, China’s nuclear…

The single most successful military alliance the world has ever known

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.

And that is what we are doing.

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

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

At the same time, we are backing British innovation, British industry and British jobs and delivering opportunity to every corner of the country.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.