It's been a long time coming, but the UK has finally released new advice for every household on how to be ready in an emergency.

It's been a long time coming, but the UK has finally released new advice for every household on how to be ready in an emergency. The move marks the start of a three-year campaign that's meant to strengthen national resilience at a time of mounting threats. So, what does it all mean? The main message for now is to think about what you'd need to survive for three days in a crisis. All the information is on this updated website that asks, are you emergency ready? It then links to a checklist that has a load of suggestions on how to be more prepared. It includes having enough supplies of water, of food, of medicine. While the focus of the advice is on more familiar disasters, such as severe weather or cyber attacks, ministers have been warning about the possibility of war. It just seems as though most of them, including perhaps the Prime Minister, are less comfortable about talking about what that kind of existential threat would mean for the public. In fact, no one was even scheduled to talk about the new campaign at all. So, I asked the Defence Secretary a question as he opened a gun hall in the West Midlands. When is that national conversation going to start? Today, the government is launching part of its national resilience conversation, asking Britain to be prepared for things like wildfires and flooding and those sorts of everyday risks that the country sees and experiences. We'll also need to take the country a step further and ask them, are they prepared for increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks on our businesses? Are they prepared for the eventuality that there may be disruption to essential supply chains caused by hostile state actors or terrorists? How would we cope if the payment systems at the local supermarket went down? Those are the sorts of everyday challenges and threats that we could well face, and it's right that we ask the country to be ready for those things and to ask everyone to do their bit.