UK Terror menace at highest stage since 9/11 | EUROtoday

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The menace of an imminent terror assault within the UK is rising, senior safety officers have allegedly warned MPs.

The Mail on Sunday has reported that politicians are more and more being alerted to the hazard of terror assaults following an “upsurge in extremist activity” on account of the battle within the Middle East.

“The level of extremist chatter is off the scale,” an MP with information of the latest briefings informed the Mail. “This is something they’ve seen growing and growing. It’s like when the Twin Towers came down in 2001, there was a big spike of hate.”

The claims come simply days after the federal government’s impartial reviewer of terrorism mentioned that the Israel- Hamas battle has introduced a “risk to our democracy”.

Talking to Times Radio, Jonathan Hall KC mentioned:

“When you see last week, MPs literally scared to show [in parliament]apparently wanting to change their behaviour in parliament because of threats that they’ve been receiving.

“If those are done in order to affect the way in which the government acts and way parliamentarians operate, then actually that does begin to fall within the scope of terrorism and might even call for counterterrorism response.”

In October 2021, David Amess, the Conservative MP for Southend West, was fatally stabbed at a constituency surgical procedure in Essex. The assault was dedicated by a British Islamic State sympathiser and was across the time parliament voted to hold out airstrikes in Syria.

Just 5 years earlier, Labour MP Jo Cox died after being shot and stabbed a number of occasions in Birstall, West Yorkshire by a right-wing terrorist.

The present terrorism menace stage is at present at “substantial”, however the Mail studies issues amongst MPs that it ought to be raised to “severe” to replicate the extent of extremist chatter reaching its highest for the reason that terror assault in New York on 11 September 2001.

In a speech final week, the Prime Minister warned that extremists are attempting to “tear us apart” and referred to as on the nation to unite to “beat this poison”.

His feedback adopted the election of Workers Party MP George Galloway within the Rochdale by-election, who centered his marketing campaign on the battle in Gaza.

Mr Sunak mentioned that it was “beyond alarming” that the Rochdale by-election “returned a candidate who dismisses the horror of what happened on October 7th, who glorifies Hezbollah and is endorsed by Nick Griffin”.

Mr Galloway mentioned he “abhors extremism” and has mentioned he’s “not responsible” for who endorses him.

The prime minister has since pledged to “redouble our support for the Prevent programme”, which tries to steer folks away from radicalisation, and has instructed the Home Office to make use of present legal guidelines to dam hate preachers from getting into Britain.

The Home Office has been approached for remark.