James Cleverly will today urge world leaders to work together to fight online terror and prevent attacks at a United Nations meeting in India.
Attending the UN Security Council counter-terrorism committee in New Delhi, the Foreign Secretary – who kept his job in new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak‘s Cabinet reshuffle – will urge the UK’s allies to tackle the use of technology by terror groups to recruit and radicalise people.
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“Within the space of two decades, terrorists have gone from circulating crackly voice recordings from the depths of Tora Bora, to global online recruitment and incitement campaigns, to live streaming attacks,” he is expected to say.
“Online incitement has radicalised vulnerable people in far-off countries, who have gone on to use rental vans as weapons of terror.
“So we must continue to work together to fight terrorist ideologies online.”
Mr Cleverly is also expected to…
