All news on the topic: John Saunders

One of the first tasks of Whitehall’s mandarins – the permanent government – is to indoctrinate a new prime minister in the need for official secrecy, especially around the intelligence agencies.

The Greater Manchester Metro Mayor piled pressure on Labour leader Keir Starmer to back the Mirror's calls to extend free school meals to all primary school pupils in England

The two-time Labour leadership hopeful left the door open to a Westminster comeback - but insisted he was 'genuinely excited' about more powers being handed to the North.

Salman Abedi had been on MI5’s radar aged 15 and had been to Libya several times - nobody in the UK security system will be blaming themselves more than those in MI5 who failed, writes Chris Hughes

Manchester Arena Inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders released his findings on Thursday, which determined MI5 officers failed to take appropriate action on two key pieces of intelligence received in the months before the attack

Today's publication of the final report of the Manchester Arena Inquiry looked at whether the attack could have been prevented, the planning and preparation of the attack and the radicalisation of Abedi

Salman Abedi's Muslim preacher friend Mansour Al-Anezi was investigated by the security services before a failed suicide bombing in Exeter in 2008

Salman Abedi killed 22 people at the Manchester Arena after he detonated a home-made device at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017, but a probe has revealed MI5 were aware of him in 2014