United Kingdom Prime Minister has announced the appointment of the first ever woman Chief of the country's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Blaise Metreweli CMG will be the 18th Chief in the organisation's history and the first woman to hold the role a statement from the UK government said on Monday.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Sunday that Blaise Metreweli will be the next head of the U.K.’s foreign intelligence agency, and the first woman to hold the post since its founding in 1909. She is currently the MI6 director of technology and innovation — the real-world equivalent of Bond gadget-master Q.

Moore in 2021 said China was the single greatest priority for his spy agency, while MI5 said last year that Iran had been behind 20 plots to kill, kidnap or target dissidents or p