Intel recruitment

MI6 opens doors to first school trip

MI6 has welcomed its first ever school trip as it broadens its recruiting pool for spies and tries to dispel the perception that staff are only chosen via a “tap on the shoulder” at Oxbridge colleges.

Seven prize-winning students from some of the most deprived areas of Wales met the chief of the secretive organisation during a careers trip to the capital.

The Secret Intelligence Service wants to attract a wider range of recruits, amid fears that potentially successful candidates may be not be considering a career within the service.