The threat of Iranian attacks in the UK could increase in the wake of the US bombing of the country’s nuclear facilities, a Cabinet minister has warned.

Overnight, Donald Trump deployed B-2 bombers to strike Iran’s three main nuclear sites in what the US president described as a “very successful attack”.

Following the raid, countries across the world are bracing for potential retaliation, after Iran’s foreign minister warned the bombings would have “everlasting consequences”.

Jonathan Reynolds, the Business Secretary, said that Iran’s disruptive spying operations in the UK were “already at a significant level”.

He said that hardly a week went by without an Iranian cyber attack on the UK’s infrastructure.

He said: “I think it would be naive to say that wouldn’t potentially increase but again, there’s a choice here for Iran.

“Do they want to continue being an agent of instability in the region and the wider world? Where has that got them? Where has it got the Iranian people?

“There is a better course of action for Iran to take here and I think they should consider that.”