Exclusive: Whitehall officials planning strategy to tackle disruption to global supply chains in the aftermath of an attack
Whitehall officials have strategised a series of scenarios about the economic fallout that could follow ifConcerns about the major disruption to global supply chains and consequences of any coordinated western response have been examined by civil servants as part of what is said to be routine “forward-scanning” exercises.
Ahead of an update to the UK’s defence and security strategy, known as the integrated review, the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is facing pressure fromhawks in his party to re-classify the country as a “threat” instead of a “systemic challenge”.
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