MI5 and the other two main UK intelligence agencies, MI6 and GCHQ, are all anxious to maintain a close working relationship with their European counterparts after Brexit. He will say: “European intelligence cooperation today is simply unrecognisable to what it looked like five years ago”. He will cite the work of one of the main platforms for intelligence sharing, the Counter Terrorism Group, which is made up of all 28 EU members along with Norway and Switzerland. The UK and the other European spy agencies work on the assumption that intelligence sharing will continue after Brexit. According to Parker, the UK intelligence services and police have disrupted 25 potential attacks in the UK since 2013.

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2018 21:22 UTC