Britain must prepare for possibility of attack on UK soil, government warns

Britain needs to prepare for the possibility of being attacked on its own soil, the government has warned in its security strategy, laying out in stark terms the range of threats ministers say the UK now faces. Russia's military buildup and Iran's increasing attacks on dissidents abroad mean the country could soon find itself involved in a domestic war, the review says. The warning echoes recent comments from Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary general, that without a major increase in defence spending, British people "better learn to speak Russian". Keir Starmer, who is at the Nato summit in The Hague,…