so, they re lying 7 your contention is, the government is lying? i mean, a lie implies they know what they re doing, and it s perfectly possible that number 10, the treasury are not aware of the maths. but i am, i was the minister who looked through these figures day in, day out. and i know, as every single person in the foreign and commonwealth office knows, that we are not going to meet that target. no civil servants would ever come on this programme and tell you that we re going to meet 11.6, they will tell you the opposite, or they ll say nothing at all, as civil servants are wont to do. i want to continue our conversation about the environmental challenges and the way the government is trying to meet them and its commitment or otherwise to net zero by 2050, come back to all of that, but i have to, at this point, as we ve talked about your resignation from government, get into one other issue, which actually is rather important to you as positioning yourself as a man of principle.
they know what they re doing, and it s perfectly possible that number 10, the treasury are not aware of the maths. but i am, i was the minister who looked through these figures day in, day out. and i know, as every single person in the foreign and commonwealth office knows, that we are not going to meet that target. no civil servants would ever come on this programme and tell you that we re going to meet 11.6, they will tell you the opposite, or they ll say nothing at all, as civil servants are wont to do. i want to continue our conversation about the environmental challenges and the way the government is trying to meet them and its commitment or otherwise to net zero by 2050, come back to all of that, but i have to, at this point, as we ve talked about your resignation from government, get into one other issue, which actually is rather important to you as positioning yourself as a man of principle. isn t the truth that you actually left the government because rishi sunak was so infuri
downing street about what happened? sorry, it seems at this point we can t actually hear simon so we will just plug in the relevant wires and take you back to the foreign office a little later. but as we touched on there, we heard yesterday from rishi sunak saying the right thing to do was reallyjust sunak saying the right thing to do was really just to sunak saying the right thing to do was reallyjust to speak sunak saying the right thing to do was really just to speak to allies and make sure that the allies and particularly those of ukraine were alljoined up and all linkedin communication about what happened in a pretty astonishing 24 hours. lepers might look at some of the other implications especially from a military point of view. let s look. lord dannatt is a former head of the british army. he joins us from norfolk. it appears that the immediate threat from the wagner group has been averted as far as the kremlin and moscow is concerned but people will find it absolutely aston
responded to these events? well, i think here in the foreign office this morning officials are pausing for a moment of breath after what was an extraordinary 24 hour is in russia. i think there was some surprise of the speed of which this rebellion broke out and then equally, the speed at which it then apparently dissipated. there was real concern here, particularly because russia is of course a nuclear powers so the thought of as civil war breaking out there was extremely unpalatable. officially the line this morning here at the foreign office is that they are continuing to monitor the situation in russia very closely. we know that yesterday the foreign secretary james cleverly held a meeting at the government emergency cobra committee as well as analysing the situation on the ground in russia. a key focus of that was a safety of british citizens who live in russia and the advice from the foreign office remains that people from here should
noise and uncertainty continues inside russia but clearly, the ukrainians would also be looking to see if there are any indications of, if you like, political after shocks rippling through to russia s frontlines here in ukraine, will there perhaps be unexpected troop movements and signs of low morale amongst russian troops, science perhaps of wagner troops returning to the front line or leaving again and causing disruptions or infighting. clearly the ukrainians will be looking for opportunities to exploit on this long and so far very difficult to penetrate russian frontline. . frontline. andrew harding in the dunbar s region frontline. andrew harding in the dunbar s region of frontline. andrew harding in the dunbar s region of ukraine, - frontline. andrew harding in the l dunbar s region of ukraine, thank dunbar s region of ukraine, thank you. donbas. our reporter simonjones is outside the foreign and commonwealth office in central london. simon, how has the uk government