Trust the public on threat resilience, Downie urges

Trust the public on threat resilience, Downie urges

The government must stop treating national resilience as a set of plans on paper and instead trust the public with the truth about the threats facing the country, Labour MP Graeme Downie told a Westminster Hall debate on preparedness for national emergencies. Downie, the MP for Dunfermline and Dollar, opened the debate by setting the question against what the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy has described as an era of radical un…