James Cook

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Newscast · What Does It Cost To Keep The UK Safe? · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And they're not going to do that, Frank.

There's a lot of talk about this hybrid Navy.

In fact, I heard you on the radio this morning talking about hybridisation, which I struggle to say, but you said beautifully this morning.

Can you tell newscasters what the hybrid Navy is, how that is a change, and what the thinking is behind it?

At some points, it's been quite poor in that sense, because they've had problems, haven't they?

Especially in warm waters.

Well, you mentioned both of them there, John Healy and Dan Jarvis, and they had a discussion.

Is a discussion the right word about this?

Exchange.

Exchange in Parliament this afternoon.

So why don't we have a listen to that?

You've set out three really good questions there.

I'm going to add another one on top of that, which I'd love to ask you, Alex, and Chris about, which is...

Is even this, even with the cuts to roads and energy projects, fully funded?

Because I think I'm right in saying that when I was looking through the detail, there was some suggestion that a big chunk of even this funding hasn't quite been identified yet.

Is that right?

And Chris, so from what Alex is saying there, if there's an extra 4.7 billion to find, is that a whole lot of other roads projects that are going to be cut and there's going to be a whole lot of big arguments about them and more government ministers and or backbenchers jumping up and down and getting angry?

And that is, just funnily enough, what I was thinking about a minute ago when you were saying the United States would criticise Britain in the terms you were describing, is that the UK and other European nations might well retort that

Well, it might not be that the UK is able to defend itself or other NATO allies, but at least it would be willing to do so, which could not necessarily be said of President Trump by, we assume, given, or, you know, nobody knows that for sure, that he wouldn't, if Article 5 of the NATO treaty, which...

regards an attack on One Nation as an attack on all members were invoked, which has only ever been invoked once, hasn't it, for 9-11.

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