Wes Streeting: “It needs to be broad, and it needs the best possible field of candidates. I support that approach and I hope that you…”

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.

As and when we can, we will report back to the public about these individuals and about the nature of the threat.

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.

It is difficult and necessarily painstaking work, but it is necessary.