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Last October he upset intelligence agencies and Number 10 by apparently revealing details of an imminent plot in a House of Lords speech when he told fellow peers: "The [terrorist] threat is huge... we unravelled one, which caused damage to al-Qaida, and the plots faded slightly.
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