- The UK government is launching a new "resilience" campaign, urging the public to stockpile food and water in preparation for potential emergencies such as cyberattacks and severe weather.
- This initiative will be accompanied by Operation Albiston Shadow, the largest home defence exercise in decades, scheduled for next year to test military and civilian responses across the UK.
- Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones stated that the campaign aims to empower the public to take small but important steps to prepare for disruptions, enabling emergency services to prioritise the most vulnerable.
- The campaign follows recent accusations by the UK and its allies that Russia attempted to hack Poland's power grid last December, which could have left 500,000 people without electricity.
- Mr Jones has updated the UK’s National Risk Register with seven new entries, including cyberattacks targeting data and water infrastructure, digital resilience failures, and the risk of foreign interference in the UK’s democratic process.
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