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WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange should be sent to the US to face criminal espionage charges, the UK government has said.

The UK’s digital minister warned he had “very grave concerns” about Facebook’s plans to expand end-to-end encryption across all user communications.

Facebook has hit back at UK home secretary Priti Patel’s calls for a “backdoor” into planned encryption across its messaging apps, saying it would be a “gift to criminals”.

Facebook has been accused of reverting to the “digital Dark Ages” after serious concerns were raised that plans for message encryption could prevent child abusers and terrorists being caught.

Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The British home secretary has called for a backdoor into end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms in a bid to tackle security threats.