London, June 16 -- United Kingdom Prime Minister has announced the appointment of the first ever woman Chief of the country's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).

Blaise Metreweli CMG will be the 18th Chief in the organisation's history and the first woman to hold the role a statement from the UK government said on Monday.

This is the first time in the foreign intelligence service's 116-year history that the MI6 has got a woman head.

Metreweli, 47, who joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1999, will take over from Sir Richard Moore later this year.

She is currently responsible for technology and innovation at the service and said she was "proud and honoured" to have been asked to lead.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called the ap...