About Philip Hammond: Philip Hammond is a British Conservative politician who has been the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 15 July 2014.
Many people in Britain will regard the end of combat in Afghanistan as a very good news story, but for many young men and women joining the Armed Forces, the lure of operations is a big recruiting sergeant, and we have to think how we are going to re...
To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.
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...
Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
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.
The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.
