LONDON: Police and intelligence services have disrupted 31 plots to attack Britain in the last four years, Ken McCallum, director-general of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency, said today.
The majority of plots were from Islamist extremists, but a growing number are organised far-right groups, he said.
“Even during the pandemic period, we have all been enduring for most of the last two years, we have had to disrupt six late-stage attack plots,” McCallum told the BBC.
“So the terrorist threat to the UK, I am sorry to say, is a real and enduring thing.”