Although the nature of the "impact" might be different to what they're used to. As Mrs Morin says, working in the private world is different to directly tackling terrorism.
He also said there was a further issue about the "correctness" of new evidence provided by a very senior MI5 officer.Tuesday's hearing comes four months after the BBC revealed
. The agent used his MI5 role to coerce and terrorise his girlfriend, attacking her with a machete.The most senior judge in England and Wales, Lady Chief Justice Baroness Sue Carr, and the President of the King's Bench Division Dame Victoria Sharp, will now join Mr Justice Chamberlain to consider what, if any, action should be taken about MI5's false evidence.There are a range of potential options, from accepting the conclusions of MI5's investigations to initiating contempt of court proceedings against MI5 itself or individual officers - or both.
Usually, contempt of court proceedings are referred to the Attorney General, currently Lord Hermer, but in this case, he is technically representing MI5.Details about MI5's internal investigation into how it came to give the false evidence, which were included in the secret documents given to the court, may also be made public on Tuesday.
MI5 gave the evidence in 2022 after then-Attorney General Suella Braverman sought an injunction to stop a BBC investigation about X. She won him legal anonymity but
During that case, a senior spy known only as Witness A said MI5 had stuck to its policy to "neither confirm nor deny" (NCND) that X was an MI5 agent during conversations with me in 2020, when I was investigating X's conduct.However, he conceded that the UK government may have to change approach if SNP popularity and support for another vote grows.
Gove was part of a government that rejected requests from the Scottish government for a second referendum.He denied that this was anti-democratic and insisted that Scotland had "more important" issues to deal with.
Gove now suggests that the likelihood of a second independence vote was linked to the SNP's ability to improve public services."If, for the sake of argument, the SNP make all of those decisions in government in a way that gives people confidence in them then we might be in a different position [on a second referendum]," he said.