Westminster wants own counterintelligence

British FARA returns to National Security Bill  Free

On the insistance of MPs, the British government has substantially amended its National Security Bill, where it has reintroduced a foreign agents register. But it was also allowed to introduce new measures, which now have the opposition's support.

UK Home Office reorganises intelligence to better monitor post-Brexit borders 

The Border Force and immigration intelligence services are to be merged into a single Home Office directorate, which will second some of its analysts to GCHQ.

United Front expands soft power with new operations centre in London 

The Chinese Overseas Foundation, which typically operates through non-profit associations based in China, has decided to open a London centre.

British internal intelligence suppliers in courtroom battle 

Excession, a British startup advised by former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe, is challenging the award of a surveillance room command and control software framework deal to Airbox Systems in a case that tests Britain's rules on intelligence technology procurement.

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Foreign Affairs Committee wants to have a say in foreign investment oversight 

A new report from Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee shows that the group unsuccessfully petitioned to be involved in the new Investment Security Unit's scrutiny of foreign investments.