Encourage children to spend more time online, says former GCHQ head

Robert Hannigan says children developing cyber skills could ‘save the country’ as UK was falling behind competitors

Parents should be encouraging their children to spend more time online in order to “save the country,” the former head of GCHQ has said.

Robert Hannigan, who was head of Britain’s surveillance agency between 2014 and 2017, said that the UK was struggling to keep up with competitors when it came to cyber skills.

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