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UK could lose right to share security and business data with EU after Brexit, minister admits
16/06/2020
Alternatives 'might need to be pursued', James Brokenshire tells inquiry - prompting demands to reveal how UK will be 'protected'.
UK government rejects ‘clunky institutional framework’ for foreign policy cooperation.
UK's ability to track suspected terrorists and major criminals is at risk because of Brexit, Raab admits
03/02/2020
Access to vital EU crime-fighting databases could be lost, MPs told – after Theresa May warns they ‘keep us safe’.
Brexit is a Tory invention and pro-Europeans must still fight the prospect of EU exile, writes Will Hutton.
Cooperation vital in the face of twin threats posed by Isis and Russia, warns Andrew Parker
Lord Evans says it is 'absolutely vital' for Britain's security to maintain ties to Europol and EU nations.
New IRA says border infrastructure would be ‘legitimate target for attack’. In an interview with Channel 4 News, the group said it was committed to ‘armed actions’ against border infrastructure – and ‘the people who are manning them’.
Police holiday restricted amid fears Brexit could trigger terror attacks in Northern Ireland
15/10/2019
We've put arrangements in place to maximise our own ability to stand on our own two feet,' says assistant chief constable.
PSNI assistant chief constable George Clarke says no deal could be a "clarion call" for violent dissident republicans.
UK would need to 'start again' on security arrangements in no-deal Brexit, says ex-MI6 head
10/10/2019
'We would have to start again with a blank sheet of paper as to how we build up that cooperation with our European partners'
Sir John Sawers says it would be hugely damaging if UK-EU relations collapsed to such an extent.
St Andrews terrorism expert ‘extremely worried’ about Brexit ignorance at ‘highest levels’ of British government
05/10/2019
The director of Europe’s oldest research centre on terrorism is “extremely worried” about the prospect of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit.
Sylvia Hermon warns no-deal Brexit will lead to 'greater violence' by dissident republicans
27/09/2019
An independent unionist MP has warned the British Government that a no-deal Brexit will lead to "greater violence" by dissident republicans along the border which will spark a "backlash" from loyalists.
Counter-terror police vow to thwart rise in violence driven by extreme-right ideologies.
A no-deal Brexit could prompt a year-long upsurge in dissident republican violence in Northern Ireland, a senior police commander has said.
Police on both sides of the open border fear if checkpoints return after Brexit they could become a target for militant groups opposed to peace in the region.
Far-right racist admits stabbing Bulgarian man in Tesco car park after shouting he wanted to ‘kill Muslims’
16/08/2019
An alleged far-right terrorist has admitted stabbing a Bulgarian teenager after shouting that he wanted to “kill Muslims”.
Boris Johnson is not only willing to risk peace in Northern Ireland – he's destroying a US trade deal too
15/08/2019
On the 21st anniversary of the Omagh bombing, the prime minister's brinkmanship over a no-deal Brexit manages to be both morally indefensible and utterly stupid.
I Remember The Omagh Bloodshed – Boris Johnson's No-Deal Brexit Risks A Return To Violence
15/08/2019
Our prime minister claims he wants to keep the Good Friday Agreement safe, yet his desire to push through a no-deal Brexit makes that impossible, Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith writes.
Counter-terror chief raises ‘deep concerns’ as key crime-fighting tools will be lost.
Establishing the tax havens could make it harder to sign a trade deal with the EU.
The United Kingdom’s Brexit plan appears to have prompted a wave of attacks from the so-called New IRA, a dissident group that never accepted the peace agreement signed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army two decades ago.
Political extremism has increased since the 2016 Brexit referendum, the head of terrorism investigations in the North West has told BBC Radio Manchester.
They said: 'We fully accept we cannot defeat the British militarily... but we will continue to fight for as long as they remain here'. / The New IRA, the paramilitary group behind the murder of journalist Lyra McKee, has said it will use Brexit tensions to recruit new members.