Right-wing extremists increasingly likely to consider terror attacks, MI5 chief warns

MI5 director general Ken McCallum (Image: PA)

EXTREMISTS with anti-migrant opinions are becoming increasingly likely to consider carrying out terrorist attacks against hotels housing asylum seekers and immigration centres, the head of MI5 has warned.

Ken McCallum, the spy agency's director general, said MI5's caseload in the last year had seen a "marked" shift from radicalised right-wing sentiment to violence.