If you believe the role of our Armed Forces is to save lives by convincing potential aggressors that we would defeat them, then we are palpably failing.
Farage would be welcome on the Tory benches, and there will be no split if the Conservatives lose the next election, Francois says.
Killing the Bill at Second Reading would have meant no opportunity for emergency press conferences and Star Chamber findings at Committee and Report.
And Tomlinson, Minister since last Thursday for Illegal Migration, demonstrates fighting spirit by seeing off Cooper.
If we are to keep our nation safe, our adversaries deterred, and our allies reassured, we now urgently require full-scale reform of the way we be buy and support our fighting equipment.
A new report from the Defence Select Committee highlights the dire state of military procurement and it’s effect on the Armed Forces.
Eurosceptic MPs could agree that they wanted to be out of the European Union. But now Brexit is done, they are divided on what it should look like – and the ERG’s power has dimmed accordingly.
This vote must be chalked up as a convincing win for Sunak – and a sign that Johnson and Truss have less support among their colleagues than one might have thought.
Why has the Government signed off a safeguard which Sinn Féin can disable by collapsing Northern Ireland’s devolved institutions again?
Mounting domestic pressures and tight budgets mean defence is likely doomed to always look like an easy cut when election time draws near.
The Defence Secretary said “the real battle for defence” will come in the Comprehensive Spending Review in 2024-25, and “I’m not sure I’ll be here in two years”.
The ERG chair sets out its stall in advance of a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill being set out tomorrow.
And how the editor of ConHome popularised the term “Spartans” for the diehard Tory opponents of May’s Withdrawal Agreement.
Labour have not even firmly committed to spending 2 per cent of GDP on Defence and are vulnerable. But we cannot counterattack them without ammunition.