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conservative cabinet minister justine greening and ron christie former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. it has been a fractious few days, nato allies openly criticising the decisions in berlin, the german chancellor refusing to send his tanks, unless the united states also had skin in the game. but out of delay and a whole lot of diplomatic wrangling, has come a momentous decision. nearly 100 nato tanks, will be sent in the coming month to the front line and the bord...

The funding to support that. well, its for certain that we would have a modern industrial base that is much bigger than what it is today. part of the problem is finance. these last 20 years, the banks have withdrawn from the british high street, that personal relationship between bank manager and local business, replaced by remote, centralised decision making. after the banking crash in 2009 many were starved of cash. but there is one man who has made it his life mission to support local busines...