Ministers are not taking national security seriously enough, a former head of the Army has said.
Lord Dannatt criticised ‘ill discipline’ after The Mail On Sunday reported that Russian agents had hacked Liz Truss’s phone while she was foreign secretary.
It followed the furore over home secretary Suella Braverman, who shared a confidential document through her personal email address.
Warning that voters would punish such slackness, he told Times Radio: ‘Our leaders must be sufficiently disciplined to only communicate through authorised means, which themselves are encrypted and are secure.
‘We’ve seen it with Suella Braverman, apparently sending messages that she shouldn’t have done on a personal email, and now we get it with Liz Truss.