Wes Streeting: “Yes, we have to, because the US doesn’t support it.”

We cannot afford to make the cliched mistake of fighting the last war.

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

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.

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