Senior Labour MP John Mann took to Twitter and called for Sir Malcolm to step down as Chair of
the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security committee following the disclosures:
He proposed oversight should be done by a sub-committee of the Commons defence committee, with members given high - level security clearance, rather than by
the parliamentary intelligence and security committee.
Not exact matches
The Trudeau government will set up a
parliamentary committee to oversee all
security and intelligence activities.
The
intelligence and security committee is the only
parliamentary committee, whose members are nominated directly by the prime minister, with Conservative MP Malcolm Rifkind the current chair.
Will Malcolm Rifkind stand down as chair of
parliamentary security and intelligence committee?
The programme, which aired on 23 February,
and Telegraph articles led Straw to suspend himself from the
parliamentary Labour party
and Rifkind to step down as the chairman of parliament's
intelligence and security committee
and as an MP.
He was also counsel for the
Security Intelligence Review Committee
and the Canadian
Parliamentary Press Gallery