Article 59GJ1 Priti Patel kept up anti-lawyer rhetoric after Met warning on terror

Priti Patel kept up anti-lawyer rhetoric after Met warning on terror

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Police told home secretary of alleged far-right attack on law firm before her inflammatory' speech at Tory conference

The UK home secretary, Priti Patel, is under fresh pressure after it emerged that she appeared to have dismissed intelligence briefings from counter- terrorism police to the Home Office over an alleged far-right terror attack.

Officers from S015, the Metropolitan police counter terrorism command (CTC), notified the Home Office in mid-September that it was suspected that a far-right extremist had attempted to carry out a terror attack at a solicitors' firm in London.

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