MI6, ‘The Secret Service’, is due to simplify its aims as part of a policy-driven restructuring of its core purpose. The reason is believed to be driven by disruptive and demeaning protest activity.
In a tentative step forward, the UK’s only acknowledged overseas intelligence body will consider the wellbeing of UK citizens as it commits itself to missions overseas.
“The underlying concerns at the heart of modern, contemporary living will define our purpose from now on. We will not diminish our approach to combating overseas threats, but we will take into account how people feel here as we go about our business.”
– MI6/Release.
These excursions involve operations to understand evolving criminal activity and state-backed insurgency as it relates to the UK.
The change of tact is believed to come on the back of renewed research into lived arrangements and how population growth and movements are affecting natural human development worldwide.