Tax the city to pay for undersea cables, says former Cabinet Minister

Anne-Marie Trevelyan said the financial sector wrongly assumes the goverment can protect them from an attack on the critical cables.

This is an edited version of an article that was first published by Politics Home.

London: The UK’s financial sector should be taxed to pay for protecting the UK’s underwater cables that transmit billions of pieces of data including online transactions, the UK’s former Cabinet Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said.

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