State threat investigations have increased by 48 per cent over the last year, and 13 per cent of people investigated by MI5 for involvement in UK terrorism are under 18, he added in October.

MI5 is being forced to 'pare back' its fight against ... In his annual assessment, he said: 'The UK's leading role in supporting Ukraine means we loom large in the fevered imagination of Putin's ...

Foreign states are targeting British universities in order to undermine national security, MI5 has warned ... a consultation on measures to protect UK universities. There has been no direct ...

The MI5 boss recently warned that Russia is intent on causing “mayhem” on UK streets and that Iranian-backed plots that pose “lethal threats” to British people are ramping up at an ...

Since the start of 2022, MI5 has helped to disrupt 20 Iran-backed plots presenting lethal threats to British citizens and UK ...

Russia's intelligence agency has been on a sustained mission to generate "mayhem on British and European streets", the head ...

The IPT is an independent body that investigates complaints against the UK's security services. This specific case focused on MI5's compliance with legal protections for personal data, under the ...

We use local storage to store your consent preferences ... with Parliament had been to "represent the UK Chinese and increase diversity". But MI5 said that activity "had been undertaken in covert ...

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