“This is something that the vice-president is very annoyed about and which needs to be resolved. The Home Office is basically going to have to back down.”
The UK Home Office tried to secretly force Apple to build an iCloud backdoor, and it went about as well as you’d expect. Apple disabled its strongest encryption for UK users rather than comply, then the US government stepped in because the order would have exposed American citizens’ data too. JD Vance personally pressured the UK to drop it. A senior UK official called it “a problem of the Home Office’s own making,” which is a polite way of saying they picked a fight they were never going to win.