Anne Keast-Butler to become first female director of GCHQ

Foreign secretary James Cleverly names new leader of UK intelligence agency

Anne Keast-Butler has been announced as the new director of GCHQ, becoming the first woman to lead the UK's intelligence, cyber and security agency.

Currently serving as the deputy director of MI5, she succeeds Sir Jeremy Fleming in a scheduled change at a time when the intelligence services are heavily focused on the security threat from Russia and China.