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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 a 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. Newscast from the BBC.

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I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downing Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. 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 defence picture in the UK right now. Exactly. So this sits, so there was John Healy,

10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, in the number nine Downing Street press conference room, the one we often see the prime minister in, the one that we saw Rachel Reeves, the chancellor in a couple of weeks ago. In other words, it looked like, and it was part of the government's kind of rollout of announcements and arguments ahead of the budget in a week's time.

And about 80, 85%, maybe even 90% of the words uttered by John Healy in that news conference opening speech were absolutely about that.

And plenty of, you know, party political stuff.

And he pointedly was naming loads of other

parties, conservatives, liberal Democrats, reform, Scottish National Party to try and make as he,

as you'd expect him to, a kind of pro-labor argument. But right at the top, in just the first

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