Sajid Javid wants high court hearing into MI5 failures to be secret

Home secretary applies for closed hearing into 'serious' breaches by security service

The home secretary has applied to the high court for a secret hearing to prevent public disclosure of the nature of "serious" breaches recently admitted by MI5 in its surveillance safeguards.

In a seven-page submission, Sajid Javid requested the court hold what is known as a "closed material procedure" - from which the claimants, the media and public will be excluded - into failures by the intelligence agency in its "internal" handling of intercepted material.