Electricity substation on a snowy winter evening with darkened houses behind, representing the risk of a national power outage.

Seven days in the dark, scored as “moderate”: the National Risk Register after Be Ready and the NCSC review

In the space of four months the government has published three things that, read side by side, tell rather different stories about the same risk. In July came the National Risk Register 2026. On 22 October the Cabinet Office launched Be Ready, asking every household to keep three days of supplies at home. And yesterday

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