A growing level of terror threat - UK warning on extremists threats

The warning from the UK’s Home Office that Britain faces a severe threat from Islamist terrorism for at least another two years — and that the threat could grow — seems particularly relevant as Brexit negotiations reach what might be called the end of the beginning. That feeling is deepened by a further warning from UK policing agencies around the rising risk from extreme right-wing violence.

It might be cheering but it would probably be unwise to dismiss these warning as yet another instalment in a round of public negotiations between security agencies who believe themselves under-resourced and a government reluctant to spend more on security, but that ignores recent history.