(BBC) A total of 31 late-stage terror plots have been foiled in the UK in the past four years, the head of MI5 has said.
Director general Ken McCallum, who revealed in October there had been 27 attacks thwarted since 2017, said there had been six during the pandemic.
He said they were largely Islamic extremist plots, but a “growing number” were planned by right-wing terrorists.
He also warned that the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban was likely to have “emboldened” UK terrorists.
The terror threat would not change overnight but there could be a “morale boost” for extremists, he said. “The terrorist threat to the UK, I am sorry to say, is a real and enduring thing.”
