Sir Jeremy Hunt

“If they got the welfare bill down to 2019 levels, that would save £56billion a year within five years, more than enough to get defence up to three per cent of GDP.”

“We went through a period where the deficit was 10 per cent of GDP, so we had to make very painful cuts.”

“When George Osborne became Chancellor in 2010, we were borrowing nearly £1 in every four that the state spent.”

“But then after the invasion of Ukraine, our thinking changed, and that was why Rishi Sunak and I decided that we needed to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP.”

“The asylum bill is tens of billions of pounds, and we know that was working because we were getting migrants arriving in Ireland saying they didn't want to go to the UK anymore because they thought t…”