UK Fast-Tracks Legislation Targeting State-Backed Entities
New legislation in the United Kingdom is being fast-tracked to enable the government to prescribe state-backed entities. This move aims to align with the European Union, the United States, and other nations regarding the IRGC by this summer. Once the legislation is enacted, officials will make rapid decisions to manage perceived threats. The speaker noted they would not provide a running commentary on specific organizations during live investigations. The UK government will fast-track legislation to grant authorities stronger powers to pursue individuals acting on behalf of foreign states. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood stated that individuals and groups will face the full force of the law. This move follows a spate of recent attacks that are currently under investigation.
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“that new legislation that we're going to fast track would enable the government to prescribe state-backed entities and that's in response to the work that we commissioned for the IRGC.”
“The announcement of the fast-tracking of this new legislation is an important new capability that we'll have in our toolkit to combat that threat.”
“In the next few weeks we will be fast tracking the legislation that we need in order to deal with state linked entities to be able to go off to their proxies”
“The government will also fast-track legislation to give authorities stronger powers to pursue those acting on behalf of foreign states. The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, says individuals and groups will face the full force of the law.”
“The Prime Minister has said today, we will fast-track that legislation. We then inherited a situation where there was this loophole in our laws that meant that where you had these state-backed malign actors, which the IRGC is one.”
“Jonathan Hall, who is the reviewer of terrorism, identified that there was a gap in the law, and we are going to fast-track legislation to go after state-sponsored organisations like the IRGC.”
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