NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Britain is bracing for ‘very real’ threats posed by hostile countries, MI5 has warned.
There has been at least 10 such potential threats recorded by the agency so far this year – with 37 late-stage terror attack plots foiled since 2017.
The UK is in a contest with ‘adversaries who have massive scale and are not squeamish about the tactics they deploy’, MI5 director general Ken McCallum has said.
In a speech from the security agency’s Thames House headquarters in London, he explained how Iran has ‘ambitions’ to kidnap or kill Britons it sees as ‘enemies of the regime.