Tom Bradby

I've always thought British politics is quite susceptible to money, almost more susceptible, I think, than

American politics, because there's less of a tradition of rich people giving to political parties in Britain.

And so it's really hard to get money.

So I think British politics has always been very vulnerable to money and remains so.

But do you think going the other way that Ukraine has made it easier for British and American intelligence to pick up assets inside Russia, or is that just exaggerated?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I was actually walking past.

I don't live that far from the MI6 building.

So I was walking past it when I had the idea of Secret Service.

And part of it was about getting the intelligence, the sort of nuclear bombshell intelligence that one of our leading politicians is some kind of.

demonstrable Russian asset.

It's not clear which one.

But the second piece that I immediately went on to think about is, wow, how would that actually play out?

I mean, like Kate, the character played by Gemma Roth, and Gemma did a really brilliant job, I think, of playing the character, I have to say.

She was so convincing to me.

But

She comes back.

She's got this intelligence.

There's immediately the question of whether it's false.

Has the operation been rumbled?