A home guard will be established to protect British power plants and airports against attack from enemy states and terrorists, under plans put forward in the government’s strategic defence review (SDR).
It will be modelled on the citizens’ militia created in 1940, when Britain faced the prospect of invasion by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
It would be made up of several thousand volunteers, who would be deployed to safeguard assets such as nuclear power plants, telecommunications sites and the coastal hubs where internet cables connecting Britain to the rest of the world come onto land.
Guards could also be deployed to other sensitive sites, such as energy stations providing power to major airports, with senior sources pointing to the recent fire that
