It says that the Government has ordered MI5 to go back to its traditional work of combatting foreign spies and quotes the British Daily Telegraph as a source.
The Telegraph has a paywall so I am disinclined to view it. But what is odd about the report is that Britain is in the middle of an election campaign and it seems strange to announce such a major policy shift (there are precious few spies since almost all intelligence is gathered via the internet, or at a pinch during international conferences). An MI5 based on its success at finding foreign agents could comfortably site itself in a telephone box, if it could still find one of them.
Not only that, but it is Labour (see 40 shades of Gray?) who have announced a desire to split up the spooks into one section joining other legitimate police based operations clamping down on immigration and a second tracking down those illusive foreign spooks.
Perhaps the Ukrainians believe that Labour has already won the election?
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/06/2/7458752/
Jonathan Brind