Wes Streeting

I don’t care if he is the Chair of the Defence Committee. I would say it directly to him, and I am sure I will get the chance to say it to the entire Committee. It would be fair criticism if this Gove

I have been too generous with allowing interventions, but let me take that point head on. I think that is completely unfounded criticism—

Let’s find out—I give way to the right hon. Gentleman.

In a moment. Just so that we are clear, we have gone from spending 2.3% of our GDP on defence when we came into office to spending 2.7% next year. It is very clear that we are on the right trajectory.

I just do not know what the Opposition have to moan about. We came into government with the abysmal inheritance that we faced, and we chose straightaway to invest more in defence to clean up their mes

Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman wants to defend that record.