it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. where do you think that the story has kind of got to? well, it carries bubbling along, doesn t it? so, it s not quite, i don t think, necessarily yet at the kind of, the obvious comparisons for the daily telegraph is expenses, mps expenses the best part of 15 years ago. it is generating a lot of news, loads and loads of pick up in lots of different news organisations but it isn t necessarily the top story everywhere, every day for days and days on end but they have got shedload
others and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. the weird do you think that story has got to? weird do you think that story has not to? , ., ~ got to? it s not quite i think necessarily got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet at got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet at the - got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet at the kind l got to? it s not quite i think| necessarily yet at the kind of obvious comparison of the telegraph. generating a lot of news. loads and loads of pick up and different news organisations but it is not necessarily top story everywhere for days and days on end., but they have shades of stuff to reveal. i went to the headquarters of the telegraph today showing the bunker where they kind of describe this windowless room where about eightjournalists since the turn of the year come over to europe months, sitting in the room not much bigger than this studio, may be
find it hard to vote for rishi sunak s brexit deal in his first comments since mr sunak unveiled the windsor agreement on monday. a new plan to improve learning for children with special educational needs and disabilities in england is set out by the government. a review into the manchester arena attack has found security service mi5 missed a significant chance to take action that might have prevented the bombing. chairman sirjohn saunders says the reasons for the missed opportunity include a failure by an mi5 officer to act swiftly enough. he s been speaking at the publication of the third and final report into the deaths of the 22 victims of the 2017 attack, carried out by suicide bomber salman abedi. today s report considers how abedi was radicalised and any chances security services missed to stop him. let s hearfrom sirjohn saunders, chairman of the manchester arena inquiry said there was a missed opportunity. what i have been able to set out in the open part of volume
of you listening, as opposed to watching under the television. a couple of final thoughts as we wrap up this third summit in a row. he went to the bavarian alps and then came here to nato. certainly the last two conferences have all been about ukraine. what is the strategy? what is the potential endgame? and, you know what, here at nato, a real sense of an organisation revitalised because of necessity, because of what s happened, and trying to work out how to face up to an aggressive russia and a dangerous decade. let me show you a couple of little extracts from the prime minister s news conference, which hasjust finished, as i record this at 2pm spanish time, and the couple of questions that i got to put to borisjohnson. thank you. chris mason, bbc news. prime minister, what is the overall objective of the uk s help and strategy for ukraine? is it unequivocally getting the russians out, restoring ukraine s borders to how they were before the war and, if i may, you have been