Friends, colleagues and spies – two women who jointly lead a vital intelligence mission say role sharing is their ‘superpower’
It sounds like an idyllic job-share for two working mums – Vicky looked after Emily’s newborn so she could interview for the job they both wanted, while Emily covered for Vicky when she was settling her child into school.
But these are not ordinary part-time roles – Vicky and Emily, who cannot reveal their real names for security reasons, are responsible for the entire counter-terrorism mission at GCHQ, the UK’s security and intelligence agency.