UK terror attacks likely to increase despite Isis' defeat in Raqqa

Raffaello Pantucci, director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), said Isis was working hard on new ways to lure in new recruits without the promise of a utopian “Islamic State”. “They’ve lost territory and they’ve lost Raqqa, so there’s a less obvious ‘state’ for people who were going to come and join them,” he added. “But they have managed to spin an ideological narrative less bound to these realities, focusing on grievances and a supposed clash of civilisations.”