Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for being here.

Thank you to RUSI for convening this very timely discussion about preparing to fight a longer war, it goes right to the heart of the security challenges that we face.

They’re right to the heart of the recommendations in the Strategic Defence Review.

And you will have heard from some of your speakers earlier in the day that are quite punchy as to how they’re talking about this. This is to be welcomed to deliver all the ambitions in the Strategic Defence Review.

We need people to be punching. We need people to be impatient. Certainly, I’m impatient as a minister, and we need people to be driving new behaviours and new ways of working into deliverance.

We will not deliver the Strategic Defence Review without any change, and th

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