Political intelligence
What it is with politicians and reorganizing Whitehall departments and agencies? John Reid’s answer to the threat from counter-terrorism was to split the Home Office creating a Ministry of Justice and a ‘security ministry’. Nick Clegg’s answer to tackling extremism is to merge the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The ideas published in a new book by the Lib Dems are primarily designed to ‘harden the party’s position on law and order, an area in which they have traditionally been seen as soft’.
According to The Times which trailed a new book by the Lib Dems’ the plan is to create a combined anti-terrorism intelligence force acting together at home and abroad, answerable to the Home Secretary, freeing MI6 to continue with its core functions, answerable to the Foreign Secretary. Other ideas include plans for a national anti-terrorism police force. Nice ideas but they already exist in some form or other… but then that wasn’t the point was it…
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