Hello on Newscast.
We've got very used to hearing members of the Newscast family speaking to us from odd places like a bus on the way to the Prime Minister's plane or a train with the Prime Minister on it.
Today, we're going to hear from the back of his ministerial car from John Healy,
the Defence Secretary,
who's going to update us on that situation he revealed earlier on Wednesday with a Russian spy ship on the edge of British waters and the fact that he is getting ready for a military response to that.
If needed,
so we'll get a lot more detail on that from the Defence Secretary on this episode of Newscast.
Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast Studio.
And it is Chris at Westminster.
And first of all, we are going to focus on defence because John Healy,
the defence secretary, did a speech in Downing Street this morning,
which we all thought was going to be him unveiling sort of the next stage of the government's investment in the defence industrial base,
specifically...
the sites where these new munitions factories are going to be built.
Because Chris, one of the government's pledges is to have a couple of munitions factories,
so building bombs and bullets up and running by the time of the next election.
But it ended up being much sort of more newsworthy than that,
because he lifted the lid on the actual real time defense picture in the UK right now.
Exactly.
So there was John Healy, 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning,