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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker, Dan Sabbagh and Pippa Crerar

Ministers creating ‘wild west’ conditions with use of personal phones

Liz Truss uses a mobile phone while being driven out of the House of Commons in September.
Liz Truss uses a mobile phone while being driven out of the House of Commons in September. Photograph: Kirsty O’ Connor/PA

Ministers risk creating “wild west” conditions in matters of national security by the increased use of personal email and phones to conduct confidential business, intelligence experts and former officials have warned.

After a week tainted by a row over the use of a personal email account by the home secretary, it was revealed on Sunday that Liz Truss’s mobile is alleged to have been hacked by overseas agents.

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