Intelligence and security committee report signed off after complaint to PM

Intelligence and security committee report signed off after complaint to PM

Cross-party group overseeing spy agencies pushed Boris Johnson to let it publish report before Christmas

A frustrated intelligence and security committee – the parliamentary body that has oversight of Britain’s spy agencies – was forced to make a public complaint in order to persuade Boris Johnson to let it publish its annual report before Christmas.

The cross-party group had warned on Tuesday that Johnson had been so slow that there was a risk it would not be able to release the latest review before the end of year recess, echoing a previous row when No 10 had sat on its Russia report.

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