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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti

‘More vulnerable’: ministers to update UK’s national security plan

Tom Tugendhat addresses the Commons on Tuesday afternoon.
Tom Tugendhat addresses the Commons on Tuesday afternoon. Photograph: Jessica Parker/Parliament

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.

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