00:00The blunt truth here is that this case is a sign Britain now faces a new threat.
00:09Terrorism has changed. In the past the predominant threat was highly organised groups
00:16with clear political intent, groups like Al-Qaeda. That threat of course remains.
00:25But now alongside that we also see acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners,
00:33misfits, young men in their bedroom accessing all manner of material online, desperate for notoriety,
00:42sometimes inspired by traditional terrorist groups, but fixated on that extreme violence,
00:50seemingly for its own sake.
00:55Now it may well be that people like this are harder to spot, but we can't shrug our shoulders
01:03and accept that. We can't have a national security system that fails to tackle people
01:10who are a danger to our values, our security, our children. We have to be ready to face
01:18every threat. And so if the law needs to change to recognise this new and dangerous threat,
01:26then we will change it, and quickly. And we will also review our entire counter-extremist system
01:35to make sure we have what we need to defeat it.
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