Speeches by Lewell.

“No pressure.”

“Do you think that is imminent, or in 10 or 20 years?”

“This is quite a straightforward question, and I do not know if you would feel comfortable answering it or not. Based on everything that all three of you have said today—you are our experts: you know a lot more than I do—do you envisage military conflict in the High North and the Arctic? If so, when do you think that mi…”

“Thank you for those detailed answers.”

“Order.”

“Order. I am going to have to reduce the time limit to one and a half minutes.”

“Order. As Members can see, this is a very popular debate, so there will be a two-minute limit on all Back-Bench contributions.”

“I call Jim Shannon, on supported exempt accommodation in Birmingham.”

“If Back Benchers could keep their speeches to five minutes, that would be most helpful.”

“When do you think it might move from a plan to something that actually exists and works? Are you optimistic?”

“It is just a plan?”

“That is helpful, thank you.”

“You are just being realistic.”

“With that in mind, what is your brief assessment of Atlantic Bastion? I am happy for anyone to take that question—whoever feels more qualified.”

“But I am just trying to picture in my head how it works.”

“This might all sound a bit daft—”

“So if you saw one of our adversaries attacking one of our cables, how would you know it was one of our cables, and what would you then do?”

“I think what I was getting at, Professor, is that when, say, you, Commodore, are under the sea, how do you know what cables belong to whom?”

“Again, it might sound daft, but how do you know whose cables are whose? If there are that many cables down there, how do you know what cables belong to what country?”

“This might sound a bit daft, but when undersea cables are cut, it is quite obvious, but what about when they are tapped into? How does that work? Who picks up on that? You don’t need to cut them to weaponise them. I am not sure how that works and what that looks like. How would you know?”