Wes Streeting: “More importantly, we would be wrong to prepare only to fight a current war.”

I do want to say that our friendship with America is the closest alliance of any two nations on earth, and we will always stand together against those who hate our freedom and those who wish us harm.

This world-first access to real battlefield data will allow British companies to continue pushing the frontier of defence innovation, deterring our enemies and making us safer at home as well as further strengthening Ukraine.

We can be reassured that this is being dealt with.

As and when we can, we will report back to the public about these individuals and about the nature of the threat.