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Hello, we've got a bumper episode of newscast for you today.
And the reason it's so bumper is the first kind of two thirds is going to be a really interesting interview
with the former armed forces minister in the previous government,
James Heape.
He is interesting for a number of reasons.
Reason number one, he was an armed forces minister,
so responsible for our armed forces and defense at the point at which Russia invaded Ukraine.
And that is a point which Donald Trump is sort of rewriting today in his utterances about Russia
and Ukraine.
And second of all,
James Heapy was one of those ministers that quite often got put out on the morning round.
So do you remember when I was a political correspondent