Wes Streeting: “Control of the waves was the essential ingredient in 19th-century deterrence.”

I also want to state personally my enormous thanks to our police, our counter-terrorism police, emergency services and the security services for their hard work to defend our base at RAF Fairford.

Things are moving at warp speed. We have to be ready for space at the next battleground, and we are.

In the dangerous and turbulent world we find ourselves in, investment in defence is a price worth paying.

Yes, we have to, because the US doesn’t support it.