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The big drone companies are still on relatively small contracts...We still see, especially in the drone world, that large-scale contracts are not coming through . . . [which] is hampering companies’ attempts to scale production."

The gap between the Strategic Defence Review and the Defence Investment Plan of course leads to lots of investors in the industry asking to what extent they can rely on the strategic documents that the government is producing and that's a problem because the government's missing out on a lot of catalysing effects that private investment can bring to defence industry. The defence industry can help the government achieve its goal and achieve its objectives. It just needs to be steered in the right way to achieve this."

I think our rules are currently dealt for yesterday's world. So we are still at the moment - and I say at the moment because there is legislation afoot to change this - but at the moment we're treating crypto donations the same as cash, and the types of verification checks that we require political parties to do really aren't ready for a crypto-enabled donation world."