By SOPHIE CHURCH – POLITICAL REPORTER
Published on September 10, 2026
China could bring Britain to a ‘standstill’ by switching off access to our power grid, a former MI6 chief has warned.
In an ominous address, Sir Richard Dearlove claimed on Wednesday that Beijing could hold the UK to ‘ransom’ by growing our dependency on Chinese steel and tech – then cutting our supplies when it chooses.
Speaking to MPs and peers in Parliament, the former chief spy said: ‘Peacetime dependencies give China strategic leverage, and in a crisis it gives them weapons of mass disruption which could literally bring this country to a complete standstill.’
He added: ‘Britain and its allies do retain the capacity to design and assemble the apparatus on which the grid depends.
‘But the material without which none of this can be built is now concentrated in the hands of the very country which the director general of MI5 has identified as the most serious threat to Britain’s national security.’
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