MPs and peers rebuke Sunak over lack of national security oversight

Intelligence and security committee says failure of PM and immediate predecessors to engage is ‘unacceptable’

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Rishi Sunak has been accused of hiding national security matters from proper oversight by a frustrated parliamentary intelligence watchdog.

The intelligence and security committee (ISC), which is made up of senior MPs and peers, pointed out that it had held annual meetings with the prime minister to scrutinise the government on national security issues every year for 20 years since it was set up in 1994.