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Oliver JJ Lane<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDoubts exist\u201d over whether the UK is prepared to defend its homeland and overseas territories from acts of war and \u201cgrey zone\u201d hybrid attacks, while work to rectify the situation is \u201cglacial\u201d and cloaked in counter-productive secrecy, a critical report by the Commons Defence Committee found.<\/p>\n The UK should be honest with the British people about the country\u2019s security situation \u201cand [the public\u2019s] role in it\u201d, and appoint a Minister of Homeland Security to see through the delivery of reforms, the Commons Defence Committee said. A report into the British contribution to European security found that the UK is questionably able to support the wider European security picture because it can hardly defend itself, with even NATO basics like having a plan for homeland defence (a \u2018war book\u2019) not thought to be fulfilled.<\/p>\n The \u201ccurrent threat to European security is significant\u201d, with \u201csystemic threats posed by China, Iran and North Korea\u201d, the report found. The \u201cplausible worst-case scenario\u201d, the committee stated they had heard in evidence submissions, is \u201cthe potential for the US to be at war with China, or at least heavily engaged in a crisis with China, and Russia comes in and tries to take advantage of that situation\u201d.<\/p>\n To be a credible partner in defence the UK has to be at least able to deter and defend attacks on its own territory, it was stated of basic NATO assumptions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n