Wes Streeting: “There is a pragmatic case for producing our own gas rather than importing from abroad.”

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

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

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.

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.