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With extremists increasingly likely to use the Internet to mastermind attacks, intelligence chiefs at MI5 say that it will now be a minimum requirement of the service to be able to monitor dialogue on social networks.

Jonathan Evans, MI5 director general, revealed that this digital policy will lead to both 'voluntary and compulsory redundancies', suspected to hit older service members hardest.

Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Parliamentary subcommittee on counter-terrorism, told the Daily Mail: 'As terrorism changes, counter-terrorism officers have to adapt to keep up. Our enemies use every available method to attack including using technology. We have to be aware of the imminent threats of cyber attacks and the old generation of MI5 have to be completely comfortable using computers and the latest technology.'

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