Here's what he said...
"The reality of government is that difficulties come not in neat and predictable order, one by one and at regular intervals.
Difficulties come at you from all sides, one on top of the other, and you've got to be able to handle them all.
So amidst this financial crisis let us not forget that we are also a nation at war.
In Afghanistan today, our armed forces are defending our freedom and our way of life as surely and as bravely as any soldiers in our nation's history.
Let us be clear about why they are there: if we fail in our mission, the Taliban will come back.
And if the Taliban come back, the terrorist training camps come backâ¦
That would mean more terrorists, more bombs and more slaughter on our streets.
That is why we back our troops' mission in Afghanistan one hundred per cent.
I've been to visit them every year since I've been doing this job.
Earlier this month, up the Helmand River in Sangin I met a soldier in the Royal Irish Regiment, Ranger Blaine Miller.
He'd just turned eighteen years old.
He was the youngest soldier there.
He's not much more than a boy and he's there in the forty-five degree heat, fighting a ferocious enemy on the other side of the world.
I told him that what he was doing was exceptional.
He told me he was just doing his job.
Every politician says it's the first duty of government is to protect our country, and of course that's right.
But today we are not protecting the people, like Blaine, who protect us - and that is wrong.
In Afghanistan, the number of our troops has almost doubled but the number of helicopters has hardly increased at all.
American soldiers start their rest and recuperation the day they arrive back home, our troops have to count the days they spend getting home.
We've got troops' families living in sub-standard homes; we've got soldiers going into harm's way without the equipment they needâ¦
â¦we've got businesses in our country that instead of welcoming people in military uniform and honouring their service choose to turn them away and refuse them service.
That is all wrong and we are going to put it right.
We are going to stop sending young men to war without the equipment they need, we're going to stop treating our soldiers like second class citizensâ¦
â¦we will do all it takes to keep our country safe and we will do all it takes to protect the heroes who risk everything for us.
And today there are a particular group of heroes that I have in mind.
They fought for us in the slit trenches of Burmaâ¦the jungles of Malayaâ¦and the freezing cold of the Falklands.
Yesterday the courts ruled that gurkhas who want to come and live in Britain should be able to.
They risked their lives for us and now we must not turn our backs on them.
I say to the government: I know there are difficult questions about pensions and housing but let's find a way to make it workâ¦
Do not appeal this ruling.
â¦let's give those brave gurkha soldiers who defended us the right to come and live in our country."