RISHI Sunak today ordered police chiefs to start wargaming responses to a deadly terrorist attack on UK soil.
At an emergency Cobra meeting in No10, the PM warned ministers of an “accelerated terrorism threat” triggered by Israel’s defensive war against Hamas barbarians.
AlamyAt a Cobra meeting this morning Rishi Sunak ordered police chiefs to start wargaming responses to a deadly terrorist attack on UK soil[/caption]
Security chiefs were instructed to “prepare for and mitigate against the risk of incidents”, including by “conducting tabletop exercises to simulate our response to potential public order and counter terror scenarios”.
And bosses at the Crown Prosecution Service were told to do “everything possible” to ensure extremists who glorify Hamas and spout antisemitism at pro-Palestine marches are locked up.
It came as Suella Braverman blasted the tens of thousands strong protests in central London this weekend as “hate marches”.
She vowed she “will not hesitate” to tighten anti-terror laws so dangerous extremists who “deliberately operate beneath the criminal threshold” can finally be punished.
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Ms Braverman said: “Over the last few weekends we’ve seen tens of thousands of people take to the streets following the massacre of Jewish people… chanting for the erasure of Israel from the map.
“To my mind there’s only one way to describe those marches. They are hate marches.”
The Home Secretary added: “What the police have made clear is that they are concerned there’s a large number of bad actors who are deliberately operating beneath the criminal threshold in a way which you or I or the vast majority of British people find utterly odious.
“I’ve made my views clear that these are hate marches and the police must take a zero tolerance approach to antisemitism.”
Since October 7, when Hamas launched it’s baby-slaughtering attack on Israel, cops have made 100 conflict-related arrests.
Met Chief Sir Mark Rowley confirmed the force is currently trying to identify further protestors who may have fallen foul of anti-extremism rules.
He told Sky News: “When you’ve got state threats from Iran, you’ve got terrorism being accelerated by the events and hate crime in communities.
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“For Jewish communities, it’s now about 14-fold increase in antisemitism in London and for Muslim communities, it’s nearly threefold.
“So this is really precarious. In the middle of it, we’ve got these big protests.”
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