Neil Basu, the UK head of counter-terrorism, said seven of the 22 plots foiled since March 2017 have been linked to the far-Right. Around 80 of the 800 live investigations were linked to Right-wing terrorism. The Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner said yesterday: “It’s small but it’s my fastest-growing problem. Despite the increases, Right-wing terrorism remains a relatively small percentage of our overall demand. But when nearly a third of the plots foiled by police and security services since 2017 relate to Right-wing ideology, it lays bare why we are taking this so seriously.
“As a proportion of our overall threat it’s definitely increasing, whereas the Islamist threat is staying the same, albeit at a very high level.”
The number of referrals to the Government’s Prevent programme for suspected Right-wing extremism has nearly doubled since 2015/16 to 18 percent of all referrals. Mr Basu said Islamist terrorism is still the biggest security threat in Britain.
But he said counter-terror police and the security services have disrupted Right-wing plots “designed to kill people”.
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Source: Express