Philip Dunne: "A Strong Defence Is Essential"

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a £1.1 billion cash injection for defence "to help keep our country safe and stop terrorism at source".

He said defence nowadays was "not about battle tanks in central Europe" but about "modern threats".

On a visit on the opening day of the Farnborough air show in Hampshire, Mr Cameron said the money had become available as the coalition government has been able to "close the black hole in the defence budget that it had inherited".

He went on: "There are threats that you cannot defend against from the White Cliffs of Dover."