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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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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Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.
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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.
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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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Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.
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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.