Tom Bradby

Or more accurately, can we rely on him doing so?

Very clearly, no.

That's the security umbrella I've grown up in, potentially gone.

Of course, Russia would love to peel off a few other big countries in Europe from that kind of security umbrella, Britain amongst them.

So that's

The kind of thing I was wrestling with when I came up with the idea, but what if you were the MI6 officer who actually had credible intelligence that one of our politicians was in some way compromised with some kind of workable asset for the Russians?

And that just absolutely intrigued me.

And that really was how I got going with Secret Service.

The stuff going on in Hungary is absolutely wild, really.

There was the fake incident that they were saying that the Ukrainians were trying to bomb a pipeline

Peter, Madjar, a few months before the election, said he was going to be probably blackmailed with a sex tape.

I mean, in my TV drama, there is a sex tape.

So I'm reading this in the news and thinking, oh, wow, this is weird.

I mean, you go back to that area of Europe, you go to the coup in Montenegro, where they tried to assassinate the prime minister, potentially.

But when you look at what went on in Hungary, I mean, it's quite heavy duty.

It's not one or two things.

They were really involved on any number of levels and they really, really wanted Orban to win.

So, yeah, I mean, I think that was a classic example of how far they're prepared to go.

David, what do you think?

Where do you think we are on NATO?