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Nicholas Cecil

Spy chiefs may be reluctant to share sensitive information with Suella Braverman, warns Lord Blunkett

Suella Braverman back into the Cabinet despite her resignation for breaching ministerial rules

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Britain’s spy chiefs may be reluctant to share sensitive information with Suella Braverman after her controversial reappointment as Home Secretary, one of her predecessors warned on Thursday.

Lord Blunkett, who was Home Secretary from June 2001 to December 2004 when Tony Blair was Prime Minister, also stressed that foreign security agencies could scale back sharing information with MI5 and MI6 amid fears it could be “passed out of Government”.

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