- Security service expected to 'not be exempt' from Hillsborough Law duty of candour ITV —
- Starmer to U-turn on giving veto powers to spy chiefs in bid to push through delayed Hillsborough Law LBC —
- Sir U-turn strikes again! UK spooks 'will be covered by Hillsborough law on openness' after latest Starmer climbdown Daily Mail —
- ‘Tell the truth’ Keir Starmer urges, as Hillsborough Law spy veto to be scrapped Belfast Telegraph —
- Government shift on intelligence evidence could revive delayed Hillsborough law The Guardian —
- ‘Tell the truth’ Keir Starmer urges, as Hillsborough Law spy veto to be scrapped The Standard —
- Hillsborough law breakthrough as Keir Starmer 'to ditch spy chiefs' veto' after backlash Mirror —
- PM to scrap spy chiefs' Hillsborough Law veto BBC News —
MI5
British domestic security agency
The Security Service, commonly known as MI5, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI). MI5 is directed by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), and the service is bound by the Security Service Act 1989. The service is directed to protect British parliamentary democracy and economic interests and to counter terrorism and espionage within the United Kingdom. Within the civil service community, the service is colloquially known as Box, or Box 500, after its official wartime address of PO Box 500; its current address is PO Box 3255, London SW1P 1AE.
Also known as...
Security Service, United Kingdom Security Service, Military Intelligence, Section 5, and Box 500
Starmer scraps spy chief veto