Lieutenant General Richard Nuge

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Today in Focus · The security report the UK government doesn’t want you to see · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

That is really important.

So I wanted to see the report.

I still haven't read the full copy.

I think a few people have outside of the particular room.

But, you know, it is so important because it's a starting gun to, you know, it's this classic of if you know what the problem is, what are you going to do about it?

So I think we're seeing one play out now, which is food problems.

This country arguably, by some statistics, has two weeks' worth of food on the country's soil.

Churchill used to get worried if we got down to six weeks' worth of food in the Second World War.

We import, I think the average is somewhere like 48% of our food, but some of our products are 100% of our food.

And there's a food supply problem in that some of the bread baskets of the world are being affected by climate change.

So you had a huge heat dome over Canada, which affected their grain.

You've had a heat dome over parts of South America, where we got a lot of our grain from.

You've got a war going on in Ukraine, which is stopping that bread basket.

You know, that is going to cause scarcity of certain food products.

So there is an issue, not that we will starve, but that which we wish to buy may not be available to us.

Now, is that a defense problem?

It's a defense problem if that causes the country to be unable to support its armed forces.

The other thing is, I really think we should be pushing more and more towards renewable energy.

There's a very good defense reason or a security reason for that.

There's an example from Ukraine, which is a 250 megawatt power station.

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