UK set to introduce bill allowing MI5 agents to break the law

Government says bill is not a ‘licence to kill’ but critics call for limits on agents’ activitiesA bill allowing confidential informants working for MI5 and the police to break the law will be introduced on Thursday amid a row about whether committing crimes such as murder and torture should be explicitly banned.The government says that the covert human intelligence sources bill does not amount to a “licence to kill” because it will be compliant with the European co