James Cartlidge

GCAP is the RAF’s core project for replacing the Typhoon fighter - but it’s now in serious doubt. If the in service date is shifted from 2035 to the late 2030s, as reported in the @Telegraph, Labou...

We’ve been waiting far too long for Labour’s Defence Investment Plan. So now we @Conservatives will force a vote this Tuesday to make them finally publish it. https://t.co/fs42YpY1rJ

In Government, we provided Ukraine with brilliant, ground-breaking UK drone tech. As Minister, I launched a strategy to deliver that same kit for our own armed forces - at scale, in parallel. Then ...

It’s official: No Defence Investment Plan. So here’s the sequel nobody wanted - Flat Out 2🍿 https://t.co/cvXwlMHMWW

My challenge to the next Labour leader👇 https://t.co/zUWlfMNFWv

Great to be in Berlin again to discuss 🇬🇧🇩🇪 defence co-operation with CDU MPs @juergenhardt,@jbvolkmann, @RKiesewetter, @Kai_Whittaker, @n_roettgen & @TR_Bremen - at a time of war on two fronts...

An absolute pleasure to catch up with @n_roettgen in Berlin, discussing 🇬🇧🇩🇪 defence cooperation and other critical issues together with @alexburghart.

I’ll never stop standing up for our brave veterans who have given so much to serve our country. So it was great to visit the mental health unit at Ipswich Hospital to hear more about the vital supp...

Brilliant to hear all four pilots successfully ejected after the airshow crash in the US yesterday - particularly as the planes involved were using British made @MB_EjectEject ejector seats whose f...

Saddened to hear of the death of a soldier from The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery. My thoughts are with their family both personal and regimental. https://t.co/0W6fEjikXq

Well said @NeilDotObrien - exposing not just the heartlessness of Reform’s lack of sympathy for Ukraine, but the fact Farage’s top advisor is willing to make up the facts to defend the indefensible.

Question @jtworr - Ukraine or Russia, whose side are you on?

Is it still your view @Nigel_Farage - expressed more than once previously - that NATO provoked the invasion of Ukraine?

This is painful - to see a former colleague I respected reduced to spouting Reform’s Lord Haw Haw lines for pulling down the Ukrainian flag. Nadhim, you’re better than this. In your heart of hearts...

Ukrainian flags are flown from buildings, worn as badges & displayed on x profiles to show sympathy with their people - bombed & brutalised by Putin, without provocation. For a new Reform c...

When as Minister I announced the new Integrated Procurement Model to Parliament in Feb 24, I’d wanted RCH to be used as an example – accelerating its in-service date. I hope that is still possible....

The @QinetiQ facility in Gosport is an extraordinary UK defence capability. It was fantastic to visit & learn more about their vital work including their one-of-a-kind testing pool which simula...

Restoring skills like large calibre gun barrel manufacture is not just about jobs but the resilience our industrial base needs in times of conflict. Now we just need Labour to finally publish the D...

Visiting Germany as Minister, it was clear that if we wanted an accelerated timetable, production would have to be set up in the UK. I welcomed this, and agreed to maximise workshare by restoring l...

RCH is a great capability for many reasons, not least mobility given the drone threat, but as it’s transported on the Boxer platform that we already manufacture, I felt there was the possibility fo...