Former MI6 boss warns Britain has lost its way' without Cold War threat

Britain has lost self-confidence without the essential threat of the Cold War, a former head of MI6 has said.Sir Richard Dearlove said Britain no longer had the cohesion and motivation that drove the former spy when he joined the service in 1966.He told the National Conservatism conference in Westminster: It never occurred to me that I was not on the side of the angels.

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