UK has foiled 31 terror plots in the last four years - spy chief


FILE PHOTO: MI5 Director General Ken McCallum is photographed in London, Britain October 14, 2020. UK Government/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - Police and intelligence services have disrupted 31 plots to attack Britain in the last four years, Ken McCallum, director general of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency, said on Friday.

The majority of plots were from Islamist extremists, but a growing number are organised far-right groups, he said.

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