text: WATCH: Former Met Commissioner, Lord Hogan-Howe voted for Brexit. Find out why - The Freedom Association
  WATCH: Former Met Commissioner, Lord Hogan-Howe voted for Brexit. Find out why
  "In the sphere of intelligence, our intelligence effectiveness is built on our partnership with the "Five Eyes" intelligence community of America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK—yet they are not in Europe. No country in the world shares all its ​intelligence and sources with any other country. Europe does not have an intelligence hub where the French tell the UK and Germany tells Holland everything they know about each other—it is not in their national interest to do so. The reports that the US had listened to the German Chancellor's telephone can have surprised no one. However, we have been very effective at bilateral sharing of information on terrorism. Does anyone seriously suggest that on leaving Europe we would not share information about attacks on Paris or Brussels, should we have it?"