Security minister Tom Tugendhat has warned that democracy is “under attack” by hostile states—thought to be Russia, Iran, and China—after MPs were warned by the speaker of the House of Commons their mobile phones were a “potential goldmine for hostile states.”
Tugendhat’s remarks follow advice given to MPs by the Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, which emanated from the government’s National Cyber Security Centre.
Hoyle wrote to MPs, after revelations that former Prime Minister Liz Truss’s personal phone had been hacked by Russia when she was foreign secretary, and said: “As recent events have highlighted, hostile states continue to target Parliamentarians to gain insight into, or exert influence over, our democratic processes for their economic, military or political advantage.”…