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(disclaimer, speculation) The Times article says this has been in progress for four years, so I suspect that this is the culmination of https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/UK-US_Bilateral_Agreem.... Which was originally planned to be encryption-neutral, but maybe things have changed in the past two years.

Given that Priti Patel is involved it probably is nothing like what's being described. She's exactly the sort of politician who thinks that mathematics can be redefined by a policy statement on TV.

All I've found is this paywalled article. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/police-can-access-su...