Policy to be redrawn after just 18 months but critics point to ministers’ own failures to take their security seriously
Ministers have announced plans to redraw the UK’s national security and foreign policy plan for the 2020s just 18 months after it was published, with plans to include a new taskforce to protect parliament against the “growing threat from hostile states”.
MPs were warned by security minister Tom Tugendhat that Britain had become “more vulnerable” as countries seeking to do it harm had “levelled the field” by investing time and money in new technologies.
Policy to be redrawn after just 18 months but critics point to ministers’ own failures to take their security seriouslyMinisters have announced plans to redraw the UK’s national security and foreign policy plan for the 2020s just 18 months after it was published, with plans to include a new taskforce to protect parliament against the “growing threat from hostile states”.MPs were warned by security minister Tom Tugendhat that Britain had become “more vulnerable” as countries seeking to do it harm had “levelled the field” by investing time and money in new technologies. Continue reading…
