The government has urged people not to try and deactivate the emergency alerts system on their mobile phones ahead of a nationwide test on Sunday and has said the system is in the public interest and could be used to warn of terrorist attacks, mass shootings, or even nuclear threats.
Millions of smartphones across the UK will emit a loud alarm and vibrate at 3 p.m. on Sunday as the government conducts a test run.
But critics, including a number of Conservative MPs, have said it is unnecessary and could cause anxiety, especially among old people.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, a former Cabinet minister, said on his GB News programme: “If something is building up to a great disaster, are we to assume that people are so stupid that they haven’t paid any attention to what’s been going on? And this seems to me to be a mistaken role for the state to be taking.”…