Wes Streeting: “I applaud his ingenuity and drive for innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, but there should be the same can-do…”

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

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.

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.

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