Good morning, all

Thank you very much for having us here. And it is great seeing so many people at DSEI and expanded DSEI. It really is a superb showcase, not just for British industry, British ingenuity, but how as an alliance of nations that stand together against the threat, we can see how one country’s innovation can support others, how we can work together to deliver a better war fighting deterrence against those people that would seek to do us harm.

I was honoured to be asked by the Prime Minister a few days ago to step up from my role as the Minister for the Armed Forces that I had been doing for the past year, to take on a new role looking not just at procurement, as industry, as the title behind me suggests, but as at readiness as well.

And that is what I’m going to be talking

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