Rishi Sunak visits Germany, the day after announcing in Poland that the UK will spend 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030. The prime minister assures officers of the pride and gratitude shared by allies who are all excited to work alongside them. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 This is the command and control vehicle.
00:02 Captain, good morning. Very nice to see you. Thank you for having us.
00:05 So this is the command and control vehicle. Right, I'm in your hands.
00:09 Yes, I'm an SP officer of the European Union.
00:12 I'm a pilot.
00:14 This is my command and control vehicle.
00:16 It's actually not a vehicle, it's operating on a vehicle.
00:19 This is a Muncher, a German car.
00:21 It's a very agile, fast, sensitive car.
00:24 And the German...
00:26 Wherever you guys are working, especially with other countries,
00:30 have nothing but pride and gratitude in what you do.
00:33 We genuinely bring the most professional armed forces to bear
00:36 in all these partnerships with other countries,
00:38 like our German colleagues here.
00:40 You should just know that.
00:42 When I'm talking to other leaders, they're all very excited about the opportunity to partner with us
00:46 because of what you bring. So you should feel very good about that.
00:48 Thank you for what you do.
00:50 One of the few times I'm grateful to be as short as I am.
00:54 It's not something that I have to be told that often.
00:58 How do you feel about our wider relationship with the Germans?
01:02 It's an absolute pleasure.
01:05 It's an absolute pleasure.
01:07 It's a great honour as well.
01:09 You can do this across quite a distance, right?
01:12 It depends on how it's configured.
01:14 If you put it in a bridge, we're limited to a number of platforms.
01:17 That was a bit too much, but that Trenadium was a lot of fun.
01:20 I'll see you guys in recovery in a bit, I think.
01:22 Thank you. That was actually incredibly informative.
01:25 Thank you very much.
01:27 We're going out that way, right?
01:29 That is brilliant. Thank you very much.
01:39 I spent the night on one of our destroyers.
01:41 As a captain, apparently, by tradition, at least, gave up his cabin.
01:44 Yes, that's true.
01:46 I brought my flip-flops to bunk in with everyone, but I didn't need to do that, apparently.
01:50 But then it was the HMS Diamond that's just gone out to the Middle East.
01:53 The sense of humour is something that really struck me as armies versus militaries.
01:57 I mean, Simon's done this his whole life, but I think we really fit well together.