Philip Hammond
Philip Hammond
Philip Anthony Hammond MP is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Chancellor of the Exchequer since 13 July 2016 and the Member of Parliamentfor Runnymede and Weybridge since 1997...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 December 1955
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Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.
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It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
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We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.
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The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
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Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
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Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.
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Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.
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The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.
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It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
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When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.
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Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.
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It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
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Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.
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There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.