George Osborne gives extra £100m to security services to monitor returned jihadists

‘The security services have been given an extra £100m to monitor potential jihadists returning from Syria and Iraq, George Osborne disclosed today.

The Chancellor promised that MI5, MI6 and GCHQ would get “the support they need” – in terms of resources and powers – as protecting the country was “the national priority”. He was responding to a warning from Andrew Parker, the head of MI5, that the danger from Islamist extremists was growing rapidly and that it was almost inevitable an attack would eventually succeed. He told the BBC: “We have put a huge amount of planning and effort, from the police, from the security services, from the Government, into anticipating what might happen, stopping some of these attacks.’

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