UK Intelligence Agency Raises Threat Level to Lawmakers Following Killing of MP

Metropolitan Police officers are seen outside Parliament in London on Oct. 16, 2021. Rob Pinney/Getty Images

The threat level to Members of Parliament (MP) is now deemed “substantial,” the UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Wednesday.

Patel told MPs that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), a branch of the MI5, raised the threat level following an independent review conducted after the killing of Sir David Amess.