Police foil seven terror plots since Westminster

Seven terror plots have been foiled in the six months since the Westminster attack, Sadiq Khan has revealed.

The London mayor said counterterror experts told him there has been a shift in the threat, rather than a spike in attacks. There have been five incidents in Britain this year but police have thwarted more potential attacks over the same period.

In March, five people died when Khalid Masood drove at pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in central London before stabbing policeman Keith Palmer to death. Between June 2013 and the Westminster attack, 13 attacks were thwarted.