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George Osborne praised the "heroic" security services for their role in preventing attacks
Tackling terrorism is the UK's "national priority" and security services will get all the resources they need to keep the country safe, Chancellor George Osborne has said.
He told the BBC an extra £100m had already been allocated to monitoring Britons going to Syria and Iraq.
The head of MI5 has warned the threat of a UK terror attack is increasing.
Andrew Parker, speaking after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, said three UK plots had been stopped in past months.
'Heroic job'End Quote Andrew Parker Director general of MI5My sharpest concern as director general of MI5 is the growing gap between the increasingly challenging threat and the decreasing availability of capabilities to address it"
Mr Osborne told BBC Breakfast the UK was facing the threat of a "more complex plot".
He said: "So we have got to be vigilant, we have got to have the resources there.
"My commitment is very clear. This is the national priority. We will put the resources in, whatever the security services need they will get, because they do a heroic job on our behalf."
The financial support for monitoring the "self-starting terrorists" who travel to conflicts overseas after getting "ideas off the internet" was given within the last few weeks, he said.
The chancellor said a united front had to be shown against those who sought to destroy our way of life and that the UK was providing "all possible assistance" to authorities in France following this week's attack.
Security has been increased on the France/UK border following the Paris attack, in what Home Secretary Theresa May described as a precautionary measure.
Meanwhile, a huge manhunt for the two suspected gunmen who killed 12 people in Wednesday's attack at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine has entered its third day.
Mr Osborne's comments came after the MI5 director general warned that security services could not be expected to stop every plot.
Mr Parker said the number of Britons who had travelled to Syria was now about 600 - and that a "significant proportion" of them had joined Islamic State militants.
The government had previously estimated that 500 had travelled to fight in Syria.
In the speech at MI5's headquarters, Mr Parker warned the UK was facing "more complex and ambitious plots" by extremists.
The shootings in Paris were "a terrible reminder of the intentions of those who wish us harm," he said.
It comes after a number of anti-terrorism operations in the UK in recent months, including three foiled plots in the last three months.
"Deaths would certainly have resulted otherwise," Mr Parker added.
"But we cannot be complacent. Although we and our partners try our utmost we know that we cannot hope to stop everything."
He stressed the UK was not facing an "unmanageable crisis" however, saying "different styles and shapes of terrorism" had been "faced down" for more than 40 years.
Mr Parker, who was named director general of MI5 in March 2013, said the security services knew a group of al-Qaeda extremists in Syria planned "mass casualty attacks against the West".
But he said the number of "crude but potentially deadly plots" MI5 was facing had also increased.
Analysis Gordon Corera, BBC security correspondentThe threat is growing, MI5 is stretched, some of its capabilities are at risk.
All of that means something is likely to happen. That was the bleak message from Andrew Parker.
It was notable that he said the threat comes not just from the self-starters, inspired by the group calling itself Islamic State, but also from groups linked to al-Qaeda still planning mass casualty attacks, including one cell in Syria.
This speech may have been planned before Paris, but events there will add to its impact on a public being told that something similar may well happen here.
Individuals 'brainwashed'Mr Parker warned that changes in technology were making it increasingly harder for security services to intercept communications between extremist groups.
"Wherever we lose visibility of what they are saying to each other, so our ability to understand and mitigate the threat that they pose is reduced," he said.
Conservative Sir Malcolm Rifkind, chairman of the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, said the Paris attacks had given "added weight" to the case for intelligence services to get stronger powers to intercept communications.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was becoming "increasingly difficult" to access vital evidence.
Sir Peter Fahy, vice-president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said the threat was two-fold.
Sir Peter, also chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, told BBC Breakfast "In the past, it was just about big plots coming in from the outside.
"Now we're just as concerned about individuals in this country being rapidly brainwashed on the internet and suddenly deciding to perform some chaotic attack. So we've got to be vigilant to both."
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