Terror investigations at record high as threat of extreme right-wing ‘lone actors’ rises
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MI5 and counter terrorism police are looking into 800 potential threats as ‘lone actors’ influenced by online hate.
By David Parsley, Chief News Correspondent 28 December 2022
UK security services are investigating a record number of potential terror threats following a rise in right-wing extremism, i can reveal.
The scale of the extreme right-wing terrorist threat has steadily increased over the past 20 years, and is believed to be largely posed by young people influenced by social media and online sites.
Counter terrorism police and MI5 are engaged in more than 800 investigations, the highest since such records began to be kept in 2002 after the 9/11 attacks, and there is no sign that the intensity will drop in the near future.
Isis, al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups remain the highest threat, but the rise in right-wing extremism has been particularly strong since the EU Referendum in 2016, with the cost of living crisis, the Channel migrants issue and the post-Brexit e...
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