Overview

• Ministers say the UK must face direct wartime threats for the first time in decades and guard against energy and supply chain sabotage by hostile actors.
• The government’s UK Prepare website now emphasizes a 72-hour kit stocked with battery or wind-up radios, AA/AAA batteries, spare power for medical devices, bottled water, tinned food and baby essentials.
• Households are advised to gather emergency supplies in an easy-to-find grab bag to enable rapid evacuation during prolonged power or water outages.
• Officials will conduct a comprehensive cross-government crisis response exercise to test coordination and strengthen national resilience.
• This drive builds on recent EU stockpile guidelines and draws lessons from Nordic and German civil-defence models as well as pandemic simulation exercises.