"it is imperative that the UK's technical demands of Apple – and of any
other US companies – be subjected to robust, public analysis and debate by
cybersecurity experts," the letter states.
There was extensive debate and input by experts. The UK gov were told in no uncertain terms that this would not fly, and chose to ignore that and steam ahead asking for the impossible anyway.
I know science is unfashionable nowadays, but more debate will not make perpetual motion machines, time travel or NOBUS backdoors any more feasible.
We covered it when the bill was in motion [0] and revised it yesterday here [1]