Paris-style terror attack on London, Manchester and Glasgow now 'HIGHLY LIKELY'

The threat to the country is "extremely high" and a terror attack "highly likely", Mr Fallon revealed.

Christmas shoppers in high streets and shopping centres could also be targeted. 

Security has been beefed up to the max with undercover SAS troops deployed around the UK.

Major shopping centres including London's Westfield and Manchester's Trafford Centre could be easy pickings for trigger happy terrorists. 

It comes as Prime Minister David Cameron will order RAF bombers to "decapitate" ISIS warlords in Syria - but only if MPs vote to support airstrikes. 

Mr Fallon has urged MPs against military action to "put politics aside" in the interest of the country.

And he warned that it was "dangerous" not to try and defeat ISIS with force.

"We are already a top target", the defence secretary told BBC One's Andrew Marr show. 

Describing the danger Britain faces, the defence secretary said:"What happened in Paris and Brussels could easily happen in London.

"The threat to the UK is extremely high.

"An attack is highly likely so we have to respond."

"Our security forces work extremely hard to protect us but we can’t rule out a similar attack here and we have to be ready to respond to it."

Brit spooks have uncovered at least six terror plots in recent months, Mr Fallon told the Sunday Telegraph.

"I can’t go into detail of the individual plots that have been foiled," he added.

"The threat from ISIL is as potent here as it was real in Paris and Brussels.

"It could be London, it could be Manchester, it could be Glasgow.

"We have seen threats to shopping centres in the past. We have had terrorists convicted of making threats to shopping centres in the past but we mustn’t be cowed by these risks.

"Life has to go on.”

(dailystar.co.uk)