Wes Streeting: “Yes. We’ve got a mandate for a five-year Parliament. We were elected on a manifesto, we don’t live in a presidential…”

We stand with President Zelensky.

You can understand why, in a defence context, you don’t just take off all of the regulatory oversight and constraints because we are talking about lethal capability.

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…

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.