It is two minutes to eleven on Wednesday night and here is Chris Mason to apologise to newscasters who like to get an early night
while listening to this podcast.
Yes, hello.
We're in proper flashback to the sort of bonkers late nights of Brexit cast days, I think here.
It's eleven o'clock at night after a mad scramble of an evening and plowing through documents and yeah,
I'm getting waves of deja vu here.
And the reason we're late is the government at lunchtime promised they would publish the three witness statements that were given by the deputy national security advisor to the crown prosecution service
as they were prosecuting these two British guys who were accused of spying for the Chinese charges,
which they have always denied.
And we were waiting and waiting and waiting.
And then conveniently for Chris Mason, these documents dropped just before the 10 o'clock news.
But anyway, conveniently for us on newscast, it means we can now have a proper chat about them.
as The Clock strikes 11 on Wednesday.
Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio.
And it is Chris.
at Westminster.
So we won't spend too long doing the background to this story
because we've covered it in various podcast episodes over the last few days.
And also, we should probably, Chris,
take our time