Plus: A diplomatic success for Trump. A Love Actually moment, please, from May. And: has anyone seen Diane Abbott?
“We have made three further arrests overnight, and this afternoon used a controlled explosion at an address at the city centre.”
The combination of a terror atrocity, mass deployment of troops, an election campaign and no legislature takes us into unchartered waters.
This highest of five threat levels means that “an attack is expected imminently”. They are set not by the Prime Minister, but by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre.
The Prime Minister has suspended her election campaign. COBRA met at 9am this morning.
“It was a particular attack on the most vulnerable in our society. Its intention was to sow fear. Its intention was to divide. It will not succeed.”
“We are currently treating this attack as a terrorist incident until we have further information.”
Many have already described why he is unfit for the job. Indeed, many have tried to remove him. Their support now is a joke, a delusion, a denial of reality.
The Government must try to build from the essentials out – security, legal certainty, frictionless trade. Zero tariffs would be the icing on the cake.
The companies are on solid ground over encryption; their footing is less sure, however, when it comes to pro-terror material on the net.
People that stab policeman and run over innocent civilians are murderous thugs – and that’s the end of it.
I am fed up to the back teeth with people pronouncing that such terrorist atrocities have nothing to do with the perpetrators’ religious views.