The UK’s updated counter terrorism strategy (CONTEST) acknowledges the links between terror threats in the UK and conflict overseas. Yet it fails to apply the hard lessons from flawed efforts in recent years.
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‘A large proportion of terrorist plots that have targeted the UK in recent years have had an international link or have begun overseas’ (Her Majesty's Government, CONTEST, 2018)
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