Risk of terrorism ‘rising’ says UK Home Secretary as government launches review of counter terror

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”.

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