Defence Secretary in a sentence

Prime minister Rishi Sunak – along with the home secretary, defence secretary and foreign secretary – was facing multiple legal challenges from Afghans left in limbo over the government’s failure to relocate them.

Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt and International Development Secretary Rory Stewart each have a 4% chance of the top job while Home Secretary (interior minister) Sajid Javid has a 3% chance.

He was foreign secretary under David Cameron from 2014 to 2016, having previously served as defence secretary and transport secretary.

He added that Mr Wallace 'did a good job, but he leaves with work in progress', adding: 'And now we have a new Defence Secretary who knows very little about defence, and it's a complex portfolio.

The Ministry of Defence said that there are currently no plans to increase the number of tanks over the agreed number of 14 although the defence secretary previously said that Britain was open to extending it.

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said the attacks were “separate and distinct from the ongoing conflict between and Hamas” and that they were carried out solely “in self-defence”.

It led to Ben Wallace, the then defence secretary, holding a phone call with the chief executive of Babcock, the defence contractor which had glued the bolt back on, demanding greater transparency.

Meanwhile Defence Secretary Grant Shapps used an interview with the Financial Times to call on Nato members to “step up” on defence spending, suggesting it would make security concerns “much less relevant”.

The defence secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We're providing weapons to Ukraine for their defence of their sovereign country.

Yet earlier this year Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey committed the party to a defence pact with the EU — which would mean an almost certain weakening of the crucial North Atlantic Alliance.

Speaking on the occasion, former defence secretary Lt General, retried, Asif Yaseen Malik expressed the confidence that Pakistan nuclear program is far better than that of India’s defence system.

Washington approved the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia at “the kingdom’s request,” Defence Secretary Mark Esper said, noting the forces would be “defensive in nature” and focused on air and missile defence.

Mexican Public Safety Secretary Rosa Icela Rodriguez, centre, and Mexican Defence Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval, back left, leave after giving a news conference.

Gaetz was one of Trump's several eye-catching selections, including Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defence secretary, vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr as health secretary and billionaire Elon Musk to head a government cost-cutting unit.

Gaetz was one of Trump’s several eye-catching selections, including Fox News host Pete Hegseth, as defence secretary, vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary and billionaire Elon Musk to head a government cost-cutting unit.

But Williamson was targeted within hours by Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, who convinced the PM her Defence Secretary was the mole.

Defence Secretary Mark Esper warned of "serious consequences" while Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held out the prospect of fresh sanctions.

Murmu is presently posted as Union Expenditure Secretary and is an IAS officer of 1985 batch while Mathur had served as the Defence Secretary and Chief Information Commissioner.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, at a recent briefing, said there was no hard evidence the crown prince was behind the killing.

Appearing on BBC Breakfast, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps effectively confirmed a new high-speed rail line would not be built to Manchester but said HS2 trains would still run to the city and to Leeds, albeit on existing tracks.