Out to Warminster Garrison to meet Ukrainian tank crews training on simulators. I'd missed them in Bovington as I was on jury duty and I'm very grateful to Colonel John Godfrey, the garrison commander at Bovington, for organising my visit. On a cold, wintery day, I arrived at the location at 1115 and was directed to the car park outside the training centre. I was met by officers on the training team and by Colonel John, who had kindly driven up from Dorset to join me. After a most fascinating brief on what was going on, we walked into one of the training rooms, where crews were being put through their paces on screen. The combat area was shown on the screen and I could see tanks being manoeuvred across the map. The trainer allows crews to learn about the use of ground and working together. Then, into a huge warehouse, filled with individual compartments, each one representing a Challenger tank. The facility is so large that a brigade of tanks can train there. I was ushered into the turret of one of these 'tanks' and sat in the commander's seat. The effect was like one of these X-box games, with the tank able to fire and move across the countryside. What you saw through the tank's apertures was as real as it can get and I had a lot fun destroying enemy vehicles. Then to a sandwich lunch and a chance to meet and speak to some of the Ukrainian crews, including their commanding officer. I found the experience very moving and humbling. We chatted through an interpreter and the soldier's calm determination to rid their country of Russians was abundantly clear. They thanked the UK for our help, which was making a difference. They explained that the Challenger was a game-changer and far better than any other tank they currently had. We spent an hour together, before they were called away for further training. I was inspired and, as I've said, deeply moved. The UK is doing the right thing in helping Ukraine, of that I have no doubt, and we must see this through to the end. Meanwhile, we learnt that the Birmingham to Crewe leg of HS2 would be delayed by two years to cut costs. The sad fact is that this will only increase costs in the long term. Personally, I wish we'd never picked up this project, which is billions of pounds over budget already. Rather improve what we have and, if more capacity is needed, put new lines down next to existing ones. The Gary Lineker saga continued, with the BBC repeating his appalling comments about Nazism on every bulletin. They are doing his job for him, it would seem. No one is indispensable and maybe Mr Lineker should seek employment elsewhere.