UK High Commissioner Alex Ellis in conversation with Jaimini Bhagwati

So continuity, the ability to change as the things stay the same, to use the old expression, adapt and a strong sense of succession, Charles is the heir. [...] So that is I think a bigger driver and that is apparent I think in the way that the two Prime Ministers looked at it and also said to the two teams that you need to get on with it and try and settle by Diwali which is what we are planning to do. [...] The sad truth is that one of the consequences of the last five years is we are all going to have to spend more on defence and we know it. [...] We can come back to the consequences of Brexit, what are the pluses and minuses of that and what that is doing to the UK economy in particular. [...] One is what we have discussed about which is the speed of change of reduction in interdependency on Russian material which by the way is pretty rational when you consider the performance of the Russian material in the Ukrainian war to date.