UK Faces two more years of u2018severe terrorism threat’

Britain faces at least two more years of a severe threat from Islamist terrorist groups, the Home Office has said. The home secretary Sajid Javid will announce a new course of action to tackle threats, including the potential threats of right-wing extremism, which are now being assessed by security agencies.

The international terrorism threat level, judged by the Joint terrorism analysis centre, has been at either severe or critical since August 2014 – prior to this change the UK had been at u2018substantial’ for over three years. Together, the police and MI5 are believed to monitoring 3,000 u2018subjects of interest’ at any one time.

May expected to tackle Trump’s steel tariffs at G7

Theresa May is expected to press US president Donald Trump on his imposed tariffs on steel at next week’s G7 summit, which is threatening to cause an international trade war.

The prime minister will meet with other heads of state at the summit in Canada, where she is unlikely to be the only leader pressing Trump on the issue. On 1st June the president enforced a 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminium imports from Canada, Mexico and the EU – several world leaders have been vocal in their opposition to the tariffs.

Fresh talks of replacing Theresa May, as Brexit predictions worsen

Theresa May’s leadership is under question again, as a Tory donor has suggested that the prime minister has shown she cannot u2018carry Brexit through’. Crispin Odey, a hedge fund manager who backed the Leave campaign, has told the Observer that Michael Gove would make a better replacement, as he is the only minister who is still being a minister.

Speaking to the observer, Odey said: u201cI would go to Gove. He’s the only minister who is still being a minister. Michael has got lots of attributes that make him a non-traditional Tory. He is very aware that he has to appeal not just to the wealthy, but also more broadly. I don’t think May can carry Brexit through any more.u201d

More doomsday scenariosu2026

Leaked advice from Whitehall has indicated that a u2018no deal’ Brexit could result in a shortage of food and medicine in areas of the UK. A source told the Sunday Times that in the second worse scenario assessed by Whitehall officials, dubbed ‘armageddon’, the port of Dover would collapse from day one, the supermarkets of Cornwall and Scotland would run out of food within a couple of days, and hospitals would run out of medicines within two weeks. The government has so far denied knowledge of these scenarios, with a spokesman for the Department for Exiting the European Union saying the claims were “completely false.”

The prime minister is due to meet EU leaders at the end of June to attempt to make progress in the negotiations, particularly with regard to the Ireland hard border issue.