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What did Blaise Metreweli identify as a priority in her role as head of MI6?

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Blaise Metreweli identified technological development as a key priority, emphasizing mastery of technology in tradecraft and mindset. In a 2025 speech she said: “Mastery of technology will infuse everything we do. Not just in our labs, but in the field, in our tradecraft, and even more importantly, in the mindset of every officer. We will become as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple other languages.”