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Britain may have to resort to anti-subversion laws to protect national security
Britain may need anti-subversion laws to counter threats from states determined to undermine democracy, a government watchdog has said.
Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of state threat legislation, is due to report this week on using counter-terrorism laws against state interference. Mr Hall was asked by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to review whether there were elements of counter-terrorism legislation which could be emulated to address state-based security threats last December.
In particular, he was asked to look at what legal measures would be useful against "highly aggressive state bodies" such as Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In a speech to the Policy Exchange thinktank on Monday, Mr Hall will say the internet offers intelligence officers a "perfect way of directly recruiting tasking and paying individuals".
"Young people who might once have been attracted to a terrorist cause are now willing to carry out sabotage for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's Russia," he will add in the John Creaney Memorial Lecture. "They are recruited in exactly the same way, by groups operating on Telegram.
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