The United Kingdom has seen a 35% rise in the last year in the number of suspects investigated annually for possibly working for a hostile foreign government, the head of the UK’s domestic security service, MI5, said in a speech Thursday.
In the service’s annual update on threats facing the UK, Ken McCallum said, “A more hostile world is forcing the biggest shifts in MI5’s mission since 9/11,” and that his “teams are currently running near-record volumes of investigations.”
Opening his speech, McCallum expressed sympathies for the two people killed in an ISIS-linked attack on a synagogue in Manchester earlier this month. The head of the secretive agency added that the “aggregate scale of…
