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She looks Tough


Blaise Metreweli, 48



Born 30 July 1977



[Blaise Metreweli as the first-ever woman
to head its MI6 spy service as the country faces
“threats on an unprecedented scale,”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Sunday.]




[Blaise Metreweli, giving her first speech in the job,
is expected to say the UK faces
a new “age of uncertainty” where the
rules of conflict are being rewritten,
particularly in light of wider Kremlin aggression
after the invasion of Ukraine.

“The export of chaos is a feature,
not a bug, in the Russian approach
to international engagement,”
the agency’s first female chief will argue,
and “until Putin is forced to change his calculus”
it is expected to continue.]


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-russia-threat


She has been a previous guest
on Politics Live