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Copper cuts hinder response to terror
Cameron reveals attack has been thwarted this month

TORY plans to slash police budgets by a quarter are compromising efforts to prevent a terror attack in Britain, Labour warned yesterday.

And former Met Police commissioner Ian Blair backed Labour’s call to cancel the cut as David Cameron revealed that a terror plot in Britain has been thwarted in the last 20 days.

In a speech on October 28, MI5 chief Andrew Parker said spooks had identified and stopped six terror plots in the last year.

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