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Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer.

Our objective should be to firmly deal with terrorism and its sponsors, financiers, and arms suppliers. At the same time, our doors should always be open for processes which would restore peace, development, and progress to societies which have been devastated by terrorism over many generations.

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.

I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.

One of our pillars has to be national security - our nation's security both domestically and abroad.

We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.