The risk from terrorism is “rising”, Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said.
The cabinet minister was speaking as the government published a review of its counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, which has been updated for the first time in five years.
Ms Braverman said: “We now face a domestic terrorist threat which is less predictable, harder to detect and investigate; a persistent and evolving threat from Islamist terrorist groups overseas; and an operating environment where technology continues to provide both opportunity and risk to our counter-terrorism efforts.
“We therefore judge that the risk from terrorism is once again rising.”
In a speech announcing the report, Ms Braverman added that the rise was from a “lower base”, and the risk is “not as high as a few years ago”.