🔴 UK security services are investigating a record number of potential terror threats following a rise in right wing extremism, theipaper can reveal
Topping the list of feared attacks are lone actors building crude homemade improvised explosive devices, similar to that used in the Admiral Duncan attack in London in 1999, intelligence sources told. Known as one of Soho’s oldest gay pubs, it was the site chosen by neo-Nazi David Copeland to detonate a nail bomb which killed three people and left more than 70 injured.
Nick Aldworth, who was the national co-ordinator at CTP until 2019, said: “The right wing has been the fastest growing threat in the UK for the last couple of years.37 ‘late stage’ plots foiled since 2017, eight imminent threats since summer 2021 “Right wing terrorists have a history of being lone actors and I don’t see anything to suggest that they are organised as groups. It is, however, symptomatic of generally declining social stability and there is research to suggest that at such times, terrorism grows.
Jo Cox was murdered by right wing extremist Thomas Mair during the Brexit Referendum campaign in 2016
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