Four far-right plots thwarted last year, says counter-terrorism chief Mark Rowley

Mark Rowley warns that threat from extreme rightwing groups is ‘significant and concerning’

The outgoing head of counter-terrorism policing in the UK has used his valedictory speech to warn against the rise of the far-right as he revealed four extremist rightwing plots were thwarted in 2017.

Mark Rowley, the assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police, drew parallels between far-right groups and figures and the Islamist extremists they claim to despise in the annual Colin Cramphorn memorial lecture in central London.

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