Wes Streeting: “What I think my resignation did that week was force choices for others.”

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

We can be reassured that this is being dealt with.

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.

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