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Covid lockdowns may have increased UK terrorism threat, says security minister

Damian Hinds says more people may have been radicalised online after being forced to spend more time indoors

The terrorism threat to the UK may have been made worse by Covid lockdowns, a security minister has suggested.

Damian Hinds, the MP for East Hampshire who became security minister in August, told the Daily Telegraph that people spending long periods of time in their bedrooms during the restrictions could have pushed them towards radicalisation.

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Originally posted in the guardian.