The Government Isn’t Coming to Save You: Britons to be Told to Stockpile Food, Water, Over Russian ‘Hybrid Threat’
Oliver JJ Lane 16 Jul 2026
The British government will revitalise decades-old war plans, nudge the public to stockpile food and water, and host a wargame exercise to test its home defence strategy, it has been announced.
Britons will be advised to keep a home stockpile of long-life food, bottled water, and essential medicines when the government launches a new resilience drive later this year. Coming as part of a broader series of updates to homeland defence — which has been all but ignored in many respects since the end of the Cold War — the push was justified in part by Westminster as a response to what they identified as a threat from Russian “hybrid attacks”.
Darren Jones, whose office of Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister is a position inside the Cabinet Office, the central nervous system of government, which also acts as a clearing house for Britain’s intelligence and security agencies and which has national security responsibilities, said some responsibility would fall on the shoulders of the public. He said in a statement accompanying a press release announcing the plans:
The government will do all it can and we are well prepared – but we can all play our part to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe.
This campaign will help the public to take small but important steps to be prepared in case of emergencies and disruption – be that severe weather or a cyber-attack, which can impact access to power, water, or phone signal.
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