MI5 boss says UK now faces ‘worst of both worlds’ 25 years on from 9/11

MI5 director-general Sir Ken McCallum has warned the UK is facing different kinds of threats from those it saw off following the September 11 attacks in 2001 (Picture: PA)

The UK faces ‘the worse of both worlds’ with both state-level threats and persistent terrorists, the chief of MI5 has warned

Sir Ken McCallum, the director general of the Security Service said the country was facing ‘markedly different’ threats from those it confronted during the September 11 attacks of 2001 25 years ago today.

Writing in the Independent, he called for a ‘relen...