Wes Streeting: “It also means pushing the frontier of defence innovation, exactly as we are doing today, and it means keeping our people…”

Where industry tells us that there is pointless regulation getting in the way, where our armed forces frankly tell us there’s regulatory handcuffs getting in their way – and we agree with them that they are pointless and not serving their…

That’s not what we’re looking at, at this stage.

I met one Royal Marine who was developing underwater drone technology but testing it in a pond in his back garden because the regulatory hurdles to test in other environments were too high.

There’s rarely been a more important time for Britain and America to come together.