UK’s National Security Council unprepared for terror threat from Middle East conflict, insiders warn

The UK’s security council is unprepared for a heightened terror threat linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict due to disruption caused by the Tory leadership turmoil last summer, senior intelligence sources have warned. The National Security Council (NSC) is a central mechanism in the Government’s response and preparedness for hostile threats. Through regular meetings, spy chiefs and the heads of the armed forces brief Cabinet ministers on threats to national security and policies are drawn up to plan for them. The NSC has been meeting in recent weeks to discuss and prepare for the rising terror threat following increased tensions over the war in the Middle East, i has learned. But five senior serving and former intelligence sources, including two who have contributed to NSC meetings, say the revolving door of prime ministers in 2022 and the under-resourcing of the Cabinet Office team which supports the body, has left it “under-performing” and “reactionary” to the threats it is in place to prepare for. The NSC has been a useful forum of interaction between the intelligence services, armed forces and policymakers, according to experts at the London School of Economics.

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