UK Government Raises Terror Alert to Severe Following Stabbings in Jewish Area

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer (C), Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley (R), and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (2nd L), speak with members of the Jewish community during a visit to Golders Green, north west London, on April 30, 2026, following an attack on Wednesday in which two men were stabbed. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via APOfficials in the UK raised the national ​terrorism threat to its second-highest level following an attack on Wednesday in which two Jewish men were stabbed in north London and another man was separately attacked.A 45-year-old man appeared in court on Friday on a charge of attempted murder over the attack in Golders Green, an area with a large Jewish population, in what ​officers have called a suspected terrorist incident.