They have always monkeyed around in ours, and we monkey around in theirs.
It’s part of our “Special Relationship”.
This “special relationship” started under Truman, Went to Ike, to JFK, to LBJ, to Nixon, to Carter, to Reagan, to Bushco1, to Clinton, to GW, to Obama and now Trump can use it to have the Brits or their commonwealth countries monitor us.