Terror threat

Isis planning 'enormous and spectacular attacks', anti-terror chief warns

Islamic State want to inflict an “enormous and spectacular” terrorist atrocity on Britain and may have people trained to a paramilitary level to carry out attacks, a counter-terrorism chief has said.

Mark Rowley, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, said terrorists still wanted to kill soldiers or the police and now posed a real danger of attacking western lifestyle targets.

Privately, counter-terrorism officials see no sign of Isis’s internet propaganda campaign being thwarted by community and government efforts and believe the group still has the same ability to attract devotees.