The security minister has issued a warning to MPs to improve their mobile phone security amid reports of hacking.
Tom Tugendhat issued the blunt assessment following advice given to the House of Commons by Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, providing advice from the government's National Cyber Security Centre. Sir Lindsay stressed that one MP being irresponsible with their phone's security could impede the privacy of their colleagues.
Writing to MPS, Sir Lindsay said: "If hackers have switched on the microphone on one phone, everyone in the room might be overheard". It comes after reports revealed that former Prime Minister Liz Truss was subject to her personal phone being hacked by agents suspected of working for the Kremlin while she was acting as foreign secretary.
