We have to be a forward-looking nation not a backward-looking nation, and I have to run the defence budget to deliver defence effect in the future, not to preserve regiments or shipyards just because they've been there for a long time in the past. And we move on. As a nation we move on.


Conservative Home interview (2013)

Philip Hammond Quotes

We have to be a forward-looking nation not a backward-looking nation, and I have to run the defence budget to deliver defence effect in the future,...

We have to be a forward-looking nation not a backward-looking nation, and I have to run the defence budget to deliver defence effect in the future,...

We have to be a forward-looking nation not a backward-looking nation, and I have to run the defence budget to deliver defence effect in the future,...

We have to be a forward-looking nation not a backward-looking nation, and I have to run the defence budget to deliver defence effect in the future,...