The six months of terror that shook Britain in 2017

Security services admitted the ‘bar was lowered’ for terrorists after Britain was struck by one atrocity after another, writes

People gather by floral tributes left for the victims of the March 2017 Westminster terrorist attack (Getty)

Until 2017, the UK had been relatively insulated from the wave of Isis-inspired terror attacks sweeping through Europe.

We watched with horror as massacres hit France, Belgium and Germany, seeing people indiscriminately mowed down by the use of guns, bombs, vehicles and knives with horrifying frequency.

The deadliest attacks, which killed 130 victims in Paris in November 2015, had been carried out by battle-hardened jihadis who returned from Syria disguised as refugees.