Norman Taylor

Big business is big business.

You know, when people talk about data, you know, MI6 are not interested in what you do on a Saturday night on your mobile phone.

We're interested in what's going on in other markets, how those markets politically affect the UK.

Could we get some kind of unrest in the world?

That's what we're interested in.

We're interested in people who are doing naughty things.

People wake up in the morning and they decide to cause harm in different parts of the world.

We need to make sure that that doesn't come to the UK.

That's what we're interested in.

I can't speak for MI6 as a whole.

And the reason I say that is when you're an agent, you have a specific job.

You're not responsible for internal politics, how it works.

That's not what you do.

You get on with your specific job.

So what I can tell you is that there's a list.

And what will happen is no officer, no agent can really work off the list.

The list is the list.

So when you get these stories where you might think, oh, somebody can go rogue, no.

Your job is to do what's on the list.

And the government are always adding things to that list.