Proxy attacks in UK a real and growing concern, says PM

Proxy attacks in UK a real and growing concern, says PM8 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleLucy ManningSpecial correspondentWatch: Proxy attacks a 'growing and real concern', Starmer saysThe use of proxies by hostile states to carry out attacks in the UK is a "growing concern", the prime minister has said.Sir Keir Starmer expressed worry over the use of proxies - groups used by states to carry out criminal acts - by "a number of countries" during a visit to Kenton United Synagogue, which was targeted with a petrol bomb on Saturday.There has been a series of arson attacks against targets belonging to the Jewish community in the UK since late March, including two synagogues and a former Jewish charity.An Islamist group suspected of having Iranian links - Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia - claimed responsibility for an attack on Jewish community ambulances in north London, along with other incidents in the UK and Europe.Sir Keir met Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis and other members of the community at Kenton United Synagogue in north-west London on Thursday.Before the meeting, Saul Taylor, the president of the United Synagogue, an umbrella group which includes the one visited by the prime minister, said there was a lot of anger in the Jewish community with the government. "There's been so much that's been dragging," he said, urging the government to proscribe Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)."I don't know what they're waiting for."He said synagogues were spending enormous amounts of money on security guards, saying one spends £20,000 a month. He called it a "tax on being Jewish in Britain".Sir Keir said "the use of proxies in this country is a growing concern and a real concern", and the UK must "deal with malign state actors"."It's very important this particular context, because I'm increasingly concerned that a number of c...