Members of the public and businesses need to think more about how they would cope with natural disasters, cyber-attacks or state-sponsored terrorism, the defence secretary has said.

Wes Streeting warned people needed to be more aware of emerging risks facing the UK and make plans to deal with them.

He added that the government was launching a "national resilience conversation" to raise awareness, including advice for households like stocking up on food, bottled water and first aid supplies.

Streeting also said that cyber incidents - like the recently discovered critical security flaw in the programming language which powers much of the internet - will happen "more and more".

Streeting told BBC One's Question Time that the UK is facing a greater threat to the country, "than we have certainly for most, if not all, of my lifetime".

Speaking to an audience at the UK Gun Hall Plant in Telford earlier on Thursday, where it was announced production of tank gun barrels would return to the UK, he spoke of…