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Security minister Tom Tugendhat said the terror threat level is kept “under constant review”.
Asked on ITV’s Good Morning Britain whether there might be plans to raise the alert, he said:
It’s not a plan, because we don’t plan for the alert to change. We change the alert according to information that we get.
And it’s not done by politicians, quite correctly, it’s done by experts, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre.
I’m not going to be able to tell you much more than that, other than that we keep it under constant review.
We are safer when we stand together, when we are careful of our language and when we are measured in how we talk about really emotive subjects like the incidents in the Middle East in the last few days.
No, I don’t agree with that. I think that the United Kingdom is a country and an environemnt in which we take all threats to any communities extremely seriously.
You just have to look at the response over the last 10 days – the way the prime minister, the home secretary and I and many others have been reaching out to the Jewish community, making sure policing is appropriate… to give reassurance.
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