More people may have self-radicalised online in pandemic, warns minister

Damian Hinds says there has been a shift to self-directed' attacks by individuals or small groups

The coronavirus pandemic may have exacerbated" the number of people self-radicalising online, the UK security minister, Damian Hinds, said in the wake of the Liverpool bombing.

Hinds said the security services had disrupted more than 30 late-stage plots in the last few years.