Wes Streeting: “Ukraine is pushing the frontier of defence innovation as they bravely resist Putin’s illegal invasion.”

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.

Strength is the best form of deterrence.

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.