The Home Secretary Priti Patel has just announced that the terror threat level has been raised to ‘severe’ meaning that another attack is now considered ‘highly likely’. The move comes after yesterday’s explosion in Liverpool was declared to be a ‘terrorist incident’.
Speaking after a Cobra meeting, Patel confirmed that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre had raised the threat level following the Liverpool attack.
The Home Secretary said that the decision had been taken because two terror attacks had been confirmed in the last month, the former being the murder of MP Sir David Amess. Patel told reporters:
The Prime Minister has this afternoon just chaired a Cobra meeting and I attended that meeting too — and the points to note from that meeting is that, first of all, the [Liverpool] incident has been declared as a terrorist incident, the police have now declared that.
