Keir Starmer

Ooh la la.

Obviously we're living in a very volatile world.

We've got the conflict in Ukraine now in its fifth year and we've got conflict in the Middle East, specifically Iran.

That is as dangerous and volatile a world as any of us have lived in and we absolutely have to step up to that.

That requires me as Prime Minister to make hard-edged decisions, hard-edged decisions.

And I've taken two because defence and security are my number one priority.

Yes, everybody is contributing to this.

Every single one?

It's very important that they do.

What I'm not doing is taking out day-to-day spending because I'm not prepared to cut our public services, but every department is contributing to this.

It is a collective effort, if you like, towards a really important priority of the government.

And that is why I say the first uplift was a decision to cut overseas development aid, a hard-edged decision.

The second is the one taken by me in recent weeks, which is to do that reallocation within the government departments

outside of a spending review.

And that has been done.

That is the decision.

And the defence investment plan will now be published before NATO, as I've always said, and I've been discussing with the new defence secretary and the chief defence staff this morning.

Very many people, very often sitting outside of government, give the impression that there are lots of easy decisions that can be taken.

Well, these are often people who've worked in government, with you.

There are no easy decisions.