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Britain faces ‘dangerous climate’ as online propaganda and referrals to Prevent surge, says policing leader

UK's counter terror chief warned that the main threat was from a 'low sophistication, lone actor'

Matt Jukes said the radicalising effect of hate propaganda had already been recognised in official reports as a trigger for the 2017 terrorist attacks in London

The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee was told that this is "an exceptional period where we have a sense of counter-terrorism risk which is immediate"

The number of teenagers being radicalised online into terrorist activity has risen five-fold in the past four years in a “contagion” of “real concern”, the country’s head of counter-terror policing warned on Thursday.

The head of Counter Terrorism Policing said they were seeing more online hatred spill over into ‘real threats of violence on the streets’.

Police and the security services have foiled 15 plots by Iran to either kidnap or kill British or UK-based individuals it considers "enemies of the regime," announced the head of the counter-terrorism policing at the Met, Matt Jukes. According to The Guardian, Jukes confirmed that Iran International TV has "reluctantly"…

Attempted assassinations and abductions made public as Iranian broadcaster forced to quit London for US after safety concerns

Police stopped ‘eight late-stage terror plots’ in the past year

Would-be attackers had picked targets and were gathering weapons when officers intervened, the head of counter-terrorism policing has said

Some foiled would-be attacks were described as close calls or goal-line saves.