Wes Streeting: “It also means pushing the frontier of defence innovation, exactly as we are doing today, and it means keeping our people…”

More importantly, we would be wrong to prepare only to fight a current war.

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

I do want to say that our friendship with America is the closest alliance of any two nations on earth, and we will always stand together against those who hate our freedom and those who wish us harm.

We are grateful for the vigilance of the members of the public.