It's an excellent question, sir. The answer, as I suspect you know, is that it's absolutely anomalous among democracies. I think democracies have learned a lesson over the last many decades that it is important for their intelligence services to be accountable publicly to their Parliaments, not just accountable to their executives. Mechanisms have been set up in this country and others, of course, to achieve that, whether it's review bodies or parliamentary committees and so on.
To have an intelligence service that reports secretly and operates secretly as the arm of a prime minister is, frankly, an authoritarian model.