In a statement, Reid she had never seen anything to make her suspect her husband had “broken any law”, adding that she was “not part of” his business activities.<\/p>\n
The Welsh Conservatives called for a statement from First Minister Eluned Morgan on the arrests, saying “we need to ensure that Wales is not a weak link when it comes to the UK’s national security” and said there were questions for Morgan to answer.<\/p>\n
The request was rejected by the Senedd’s Presiding Officer, the Llywydd Elin Jones.<\/p>\n
The Welsh government said it does not comment on live police investigations.<\/p>\n
Hours before Reid’s statement, the Met Police said a 39-year-old man had been arrested in London.<\/p>\n
The force added that a 68-year-old man had been detained in Powys, and a 43-year-old man had been arrested in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf.<\/p>\n
Police said all three have been accused of assisting a foreign intelligence service under section three of the National Security Act, which was introduced in 2023 to target suspects accused of working against UK interests.<\/p>\n
The Met said they were supported by counter-terror police in Wales and in Scotland.<\/p>\n
An address linked to one of the arrested men in Pontyclun has been searched.<\/p>\n
A car outside was also searched and photographed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, Reid she had never seen anything to make her suspect her husband had “broken any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-458491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}