People can only give the best they can give when they feel supported, valued and treated with respect by their colleagues, diversity is vital for MI5, not just because it’s right that we represent the communities we serve, but because we rely on the skills of the most talented people whoever they are, and wherever they may be.

Andrew Parker

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We must not risk the loss of mutual capability or weakening of collective effort across Europe, i don't do politics but it is of course political arrangements, laws and treaties that permit or constrain what we can do together as agencies protecting our countries and Europe.

Bare-faced lying seems to be the default mode, coupled with ridicule of critics, the Russian state's now well-practised doctrine of blending media manipulation, social media disinformation and distortion along with new and old forms of espionage, and high-levels of cyber attacks, military force and criminal thuggery is what is meant these days by the term 'hybrid threats'.

Instead of becoming a respected great nation it risks becoming a... by Andrew Parker

Instead of becoming a respected great nation it risks becoming a more isolated pariah.

We must not risk the loss of mutual capability or weakening of collective effort across Europe, we owe that to all our citizens across Europe.

Instead of becoming a respected great nation it risks becoming a more isolated pariah, the Russian state's now well-practised doctrine of blending media manipulation, social media disinformation and distortion along with new and old forms of espionage, and high-levels of cyber attacks, military force and criminal thuggery is what is meant these days by the term hybrid threats.

(Islamic State) uses the full range of modern communications tools to spread its message of hate, and to inspire extremists, sometimes as young as their teens, to conduct attacks in whatever way they can.

I hope that the public debate will be a mature one ... not characterized by ill-informed accusations of 'mass surveillance', or other such lazy two-worded tags.

It's in nobody's interests that terrorists should be able to plot and communicate out of the reach of any authority, we're focused on the people who mean us harm.

We're focused on the people who mean us harm, we're not about browsing through the private lives of the citizens of this country. We do not have population-scale monitoring or anything like that.

It represents a threat which is continuing to grow largely because of the situation in Syria and how that affects our security.

It isn't actually as we speak today the main focus of where the t... by Andrew Parker

It isn't actually as we speak today the main focus of where the threat is coming from.

But the continuing fact that some people, born in the UK, with all the opportunities and freedoms that modern Britain offers, can nonetheless make those sorts of warped choices presents a serious societal and security challenge.

We believe that since October 2013 there have been more than 20 terrorist plots either directed or provoked by extremist groups.

The number of crude but potentially deadly plots has gone up. by Andrew Parker

The number of crude but potentially deadly plots has gone up.