Tom Bradby

It was just one of those things that just happened anyway.

But they would probably say, if they were sitting here, well, that's the most successful intelligence operation ever.

of the last 50 years.

And who knows, maybe they're right.

And I just think, well, if they could peel Britain off somehow, I could imagine a British populist leader who says, do you know what, Estonia, I'm not sending British lads to die in Estonia.

Do you know what, I don't want to spend...

tens of billions of pounds on a nuclear deterrent.

We're a small Northern European country.

What the hell do we want that for?

You know what?

I'm not increasing defense spending.

I could write you the manifesto now.

I feel like we talk about Russia because it's more

I think they're both doing it, but Russia feels like a more imminent threat.

we're obviously hoping our series catches a wave and, and we've obviously tried to make it very sort of gripping and entertaining.

So hopefully people will romp through to the end and go, okay, we want series two now.

So we, we've started work on series two and not to give anything away, but you know, you are in a world where,

a very populist political leader might have even more power than he had in series one.

I've been trying to lock myself away and actually think that through.

Imagine a really populist leader in Britain.