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What we know so far
- Police have identified two of the three London Bridge attackers as Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane. The third perpetrator has not been named.
- Officials confirmed that Butt, 27, who was born in Pakistan but brought up in the UK, was known to police and had been investigated in 2015. He had appeared in a Channel 4 documentary, The Jihadis Next Door, and had been reported to the anti-terrorism hotline for extremism.
- Butt was also linked to al-Muhajiroun, the banned extremist group whose leader, Anjem Choudary, was jailed last year for encouraging support for Islamic State.
- But his case was ranked in the “lower echelons” of counter-terrorism investigations and he was not suspected of planning an attack.
- Redouane, 30, who reportedly claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan, was not known to police or MI5.
- Twelve people – seven women and five men – who were arrested at two properties in Barking on Sunday were released without charge on Monday evening, police said.
- Hundreds of people gathered in London on Monday evening in a vigil for the seven people killed and dozens wounded.
- Two of those killed have been named as Christine Archibald, from Canada, and Londoner James McMullan. A French citizen, as yet unidentified, is also known to have died.
- Others remain missing, including 21-year-old Australian Sara Zelenak.
- There are 36 people still being treated in hospital for their injuries; 18 of them are in critical care.
- Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron have continued to criticise the prime minister, Theresa May, over cuts to police numbers.
- A book of condolence for the victims opens today at 9am at Southwark council headquarters in Tooley Street; it will move to Southwark Cathedral once the police cordon around the site of the Borough Market attack is lifted.
- There will be a minute’s silence across the UK at 11am.
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The Metropolitan police confirmed on Monday night that all of those arrested on Sunday in connection with the attack have been released without charge.
Twelve people had been detained but have now been freed:
- A 38-year-old woman arrested at address 1 in Barking.
- A28-year-old man arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 52-year-old man arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 55-year-old man arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 27-year-old man arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 55-year-old man arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 49-year-old woman arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 60-year-old woman arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 19-year-old woman arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 27-year-old female arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 24-year-old female arrested at address 2 in Barking.
- A 53-year-old woman arrested at address 2 in Barking.
My colleague Hannah Ellis-Petersen was at the vigil on Monday evening for the victims of the London attack:
Standing in the crowd, bearing the banner with the sign Not In My Name, was Qasim Chowdhury, 38, who said the Muslim community of London was shocked at the attack. He said it had been important for him to see Sadiq Khan emphasising how those who carried out the stabbings in the busy restaurants and pubs of Borough market were not representative of the values of Islam.
“This was a barbaric act, a heinous crime, and there’s no place for that in our religion,” said Chowdhury. “If you look at the meaning of Islam, it means peace, so for Islam to be associated with these types of crimes, these murderous acts, it has really shaken our whole community.”
He said he and many around him were worried about how terror and fear might change the welcoming spirit of London. “I never for once thought I would be witnessing this in my life,” said Chowdhury, who grew up in the city. “Islam is unfortunately now on the back foot because of the actions of a few.”
One family of three, who stood in the crowd sobbing and asked not to be named, said simply that they had lost someone in the Manchester terror attacks and had come to London to show “solidarity and strength”.
Britain will hold a minute’s silence for the victims of the London terror attack on Tuesday.
People across the country are expected to fall silent at 11am to remember the seven killed and dozens injured in Saturday’s attack.
In an interview with the Guardian, Jeremy Corbyn has criticised what he called a “political speech” by Theresa May in Downing Street just hours after the London attack.
Unlike in the aftermath of the Manchester bombing a fortnight earlier, Corbyn said the Conservatives had refused to engage with Labour about whether to suspend election campaigning as a mark of respect and for how long:
May chose to make a political speech in the middle of the day – which I thought was inappropriate. It should have waited until the evening as I did.
More than 130 imams and Muslim religious leaders have said they will refuse to say funeral prayers for the perpetrators of Saturday’s attack in London.
In a highly unusual move, Muslim religious figures from across the country and from different schools of Islam said their pain at the suffering of the victims and their families led them to refuse to perform the traditional Islamic prayer – a ritual normally performed for every Muslim regardless of their actions. They called on others to do the same.
They expressed “shock and utter disgust at these cold-blooded murders”, adding:
We will not perform the traditional Islamic funeral prayer over the perpetrators and we also urge fellow imams and religious authorities to withdraw such a privilege.
This is because such indefensible actions are completely at odds with the lofty teachings of Islam.
Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka appeared on BBC Newsnight on Monday evening to support the US president’s Twitter insults aimed at London mayor Sadiq Khan:
The president was making a very valid point that we have to jettison political correctness. We have to apply honesty to the threat and saying it’s just business as usual, don’t worry about a thing, [is] a Pollyannaish attitude to a threat that has killed 170 people in the last two years in Europe alone and maimed more than 700.
As many people have pointed out since Trump’s original tweet lambasting Khan for telling Londoners there was “no reason to be alarmed”, the mayor was referring to the increased police presence, including armed officers, on the streets, saying this should not cause alarm.
Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi said Trump’s comments were a further reason to postpone his state visit to the UK, due to take place later this year. She told Newsnight:
I feel that a state visit is an honour of the highest order … And I just think for a man who, long before he started insulting London’s mayor, was a man who showed disdain for women, he had little respect for minorities, black people, Mexicans, Latinos, little regard for the LGBT community, mocked the disabled and when London came under attack he thought the best way of helping us was to attack the mayor of London … I think we should just keep kicking this visit into the long grass.
Labour’s Chuka Umunna agreed:
I hope there is no state visit, I have to say … Frankly, a period of silence from him [Trump] would be very welcome. I think he’s been incredibly insensitive turning this into some kind of row.
But also, if he comes here, given his unpopularity, just think about the huge police resource which is going to have to go into manning that state visit. I mean with a threat level as it is at the moment, I would much rather that our police and security services focussed on some of the challenged we have here, keeping our country safe than frankly being distracted by a president who… is perhaps one of the most divisive politicians in the western world and right now we need to be coming together.
Fears are growing for missing Brisbane woman Sara Zelenak, who became separated from friends at the scene of the London Bridge terrorism attack, Australian Associated Press has reported.
A Facebook post by a family friend shared hundreds of times on Monday appealed for information about the 21-year-old, saying she usually rang her mother daily.
Zelenak’s stepfather, Mark Wallace, said from Brisbane that British authorities had been unable to shed any light on where she was following the attack on Saturday night UK time.
“I feel terrible, I can’t think,” he told News Corp. “I’ve contacted every hospital in London but they can’t give out patient details or even tell us if she has been admitted.”
Wallace said Zelenak’s mother, Julie Wallace, was flying to London to try to find her daughter. Zelenak had moved to London in March to work as an au pair.
Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader, said police and security services were suffering from a lack of resources, rather than a lack of powers, during a BBC Question Time programme in which he was challenged over his party’s plans to roll back surveillance.
Farron said he firmly believed that terror attacks, such as those in London and Manchester over the past weeks, should not motivate an increase in censorship or invasions of privacy:
What do the [terrorists] want us to do? To give up on our freedoms and our liberties – those are the things we must not sacrifice otherwise the terrorists will have won.
He said that he had felt angry that the “utter wickedness” of the attacks could happen both in London and Manchester:
Was it because of a lack of surveillance or a lack of resources? It seems to me that we have the powers to follow and track criminals … what we don’t have is sufficient pairs of eyes and pairs of hands in our security services and our police forces in order to pursue them and catch them.
We are much safer if we invest in our police and our security services. The cuts that Theresa May has made in her years as home secretary and then prime minister have not made us safer.
Earlier on Monday evening, hundreds of people gathered for a vigil in Potters Fields, next to City Hall, for the victims of the London attack.
Among those attending were the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan; the home secretary, Amber Rudd, the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
This is Claire Phipps picking up the live blog again.
Many of Tuesday’s newspapers – you can see them here – focus on what was known about the attackers, particularly Khuram Butt, before they launched their assault on London Bridge.
Here is the Guardian front page:
The Guardian front page, Tuesday 06.06.17: Britain faces ‘completely different level’ of terror threat, police warn pic.twitter.com/se0YUr1R5E
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 5, 2017
British values are superior to the messages of terror supporters, the prime minister said as she signed a book of condolence for the victims of the London Bridge attack.
The book of condolence will be available for the public to sign at Southwark council’s headquarters in Tooley Street from 9am on Tuesday.
May’s message reads:
As a city and a nation, we come together to remember the innocent victims of this evil and brutal attack.
We stand together in tribute to the extraordinary professionalism and bravery of our police and emergency services - and the courage of members of the public who defended themselves and others from the attackers.
And we will pull together to take on and defeat our enemies and to stand up for our pluralistic British values - for they are superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate.
The book of condolence will be moved to Southwark Cathedral once the police cordon around the scene of the attack is lifted.
Some more details on those reports that Ismail Abedi has been released: Greater Manchester police confirmed that a 23-year-old man arrested in the Chorlton area of Manchester had been allowed to go free, though they did not name him.
Latest update in Manchester Arena investigation pic.twitter.com/wt9Q8SR7Cc
— G M Police (@gmpolice) June 5, 2017
It was previously posited that the man arrested on that date, in that place was Ismail Abedi.
There are 10 men still being held for questioning, while eight people have now been released without charge, Greater Manchester police said.
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Following Saturday’s attack, the British Red Cross has launched a solidarity fund to help the victims of terror anywhere in the UK.
The fund will “support people who have been injured, bereaved or traumatised by terror attacks in the UK, helping to alleviate immediate suffering and ensure that victims and their families do not face short-term financial difficulties”, the organisation says.
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said:
Words cannot describe the grief and anger that Londoners are feeling following the cowardly attack on our city on Saturday night.
As we slowly come to terms with this tragic event, I know many Londoners will want to support the victims and their families, together with those who have lost loved ones or been injured during the recent horrendous attack in Manchester.
This new fund will help those most in need of support and provide a focal point for those who want to help.
Mike Adamson, the chief executive of the British Red Cross, said:
The events in these two great British cities in the last two weeks are shocking and horrifying. Our thoughts are with all of those affected at this terribly difficult time.
The new UK Solidarity Fund will support victims of the attacks and their families, and provide a way for people to donate to help those affected in their time of need. It will also help us to stand prepared to swiftly provide support in the event of future incidents.
British Red Cross staff and volunteers are on the ground right now in both cities providing practical and emotional support. We will do all we can to help the victims and their families, wherever they are and whoever they are, in keeping with the Red Cross principles of humanity, unity and neutrality.
The British Red Cross says the fund will be distributed in “accordance with the need and scale of human crisis caused by terrorist attacks”. Grants will be awarded by the London Emergencies Trust, mirroring a model that was successfully employed following the London bombings in July 2005.
To donate to the British Red Cross UK Solidarity Fund go to http://www.redcross.org.uk/unity, call 0300 023 0820 or text UNITY to 70607 to donate £10.
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My colleagues Vikram Dodd and Robert Booth write that Britain will need to radically change its strategy to stop jihadi attacks because the threat is now at a “completely different” level of danger, according to the country’s top counter-terrorism officer.
Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, said the changes could cover police, MI5, communities, technology companies, the law and other policies.
Rowley outlined his blueprint as police admitted that Khuram Shazad Butt, the London Bridge attacker pictured in a football shirt with a hoax suicide bomb belt, had been investigated in 2015 but ruled out as a potential terrorist attacker.
The assistant commissioner admitted Butt had been categorised as not posing a risk of attack two years ago.
Manchester bomber's brother released
The Press Association is reporting that Ismail Abedi, the brother of Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi, has been released without charge, citing police sources.
My colleagues Lisa O’Carroll and Matt Taylor have been in east London talking to people who knew Rachid Redouane. They say his wife, from whom he was separated, was not a convert to Islam - contrary to reports.
Redouane lived with his Irish heritage wife Charise Ann O’Leary and her mother in a block of flats in Dagenham.
A woman who knew the couple well said there were growing tensions because Redouane “wanted more space” and there was an apparent disagreement over how they brought up their daughter.
The couple married in Ireland in 2012. O’Leary did not convert to Islam “and said she never would”, according to a friend of the family.
Friends say the couple left O’Leary’s mother’s flat “about this time last year” and moved into temporary accommodation nearby before moving into another temporary accommodation block in Barking, just minute’s from fellow terrorist Butt’s flat. It was here that O’Leary is thought to have been arrested on Sunday.
Sources say the couple split six months ago and Redouane, whom neighbours described as Moroccan, moved to nearby East Ham. Scotland Yard said Redouane had “claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan”.
Described as a “pretty boy” by the source, Redouane was about 5’ 6” and didn’t mingle with neighbours.
“He wasn’t sociable, he didn’t get involved in any of the activities”, said one person who knew the family.
After they split up, she changed back to her maiden name by deed poll and wrote on Facebook: “so may not have the money to get divorced yet...but have finally changed my name back...O’Leary is back.”
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In a statement released on Monday evening, Scotland Yard added:
Specialist officers are working with families of victims and the coroner to identify those who were killed in Saturday’s attack at the appropriate time.
Family liaison officers have now deployed into all those families where we believe people to be dead. Family liaison officers have also been deployed to support one family where we believe one person is still missing.
Police release all arrestees
All 12 of the people arrested by officers investigating the London Bridge terror attack have been released without charge, Scotland Yard says.
They were seven women, aged between 19 and 60 years old and five men aged between 27 and 55 years old. All but one - a 38-year-old woman - were arrested at the same address in Barking, in east London. That woman was arrested at another address nearby. None has been named by police.
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Fears are growing for missing Brisbane woman Sara Zelenak, who became separated from friends at the scene of the London Bridge terrorism attack. A Facebook post by a family friend shared hundreds of times on Monday appealed for information about the 21-year-old, saying she usually rang her mother daily.
Zelenak’s stepfather, Mark Wallace, said from Brisbane that British authorities had been unable to shed any light on where she was following the attack on Saturday night UK time.
“I feel terrible, I can’t think,” he told News Corp. “I’ve contacted every hospital in London but they can’t give out patient details or even tell us if she has been admitted.”
The security services are facing their worst crisis since the 2005 London bombing, with the increased frequency of attacks placing enormous pressure on the police and the UK’s domestic intelligence agency MI5, Ewen MacAskill, Vikram Dodd and Robert Booth write.
Questions are being raised about why the police and MI5 failed to prevent three attacks in quick succession. MI5 will have to explain why it failed to monitor more closely one of the London Bridge attackers, Khuram Butt, given his links to al-Muhajiroun, the banned extremist group whose leader, Anjem Choudary, has been linked to the recruitment of more than 100 British terror suspects.
Officials will also face scrutiny for failing to act on at least two reports about Butt’s behaviour, one to the police from a neighbour who feared Butt was trying to radicalise children, and another to anti-terror hotline claiming he had been watching clips of a hate preacher.
Liam Connell, from Worcester Park, was with a group of friends celebrating Ellie Rowan’s 23rd birthday in Katzenjammers on Southwark Street on Saturday evening, when the attack began. Connell helped a man who had been stabbed in the neck as the police locked down the bar. He and Rowan said they had come to the vigil because “it was important for us to do it. We needed to take part and pay our respects to everyone.”
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John Loughrey, a 63-year-old bell ringer from Streatham, in south London, was at the vigil on the banks of the Thames today. He held a union flag in the air throughout the service. He said:
I am here to show respect to the people who were murdered and the injured. The whole world shows them respect. We will win and continue normal life.
Usman Saifi, a 36-year-old chartered accountant from Putney, in south-west London, was among a group of Muslims who mingled with the crowd wearing bold blue T-shirts which read “I Am a Muslim Ask Me Anything”. He said:
It is really sad that we have had to do this for a third time. It is frustrating what is going on right now. We are standing here in solidarity and as Muslims. This is not what our religion teaches us.
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Spain’s foreign minister, Alfonso Dastis, says the government hopes to have news about the missing Spaniard Ignacio Echeverría “within the next few hours” and is not ruling anything out when it comes to his condition.
Echeverría, 39, has not been seen since he apparently used his skateboard to defend a woman injured by the London Bridge attackers near Borough Market on Saturday night.
Dastis told the Spanish news agency Efe: “We’re pushing the British authorities because, frankly, this isn’t the kind of thing that can go on and on.”
More has come in on Antonis Filis, the London-resident Greek who sustained head injuries and knife wounds to his kidney in the attack.
The Greek embassy has released a statement saying it expects the 35-year-old, who has been operated on, to be discharged from the London hospital where he is recovering by the end of the week. “The embassy and the ministry of foreign affairs will continue to stand by him and his family,” said the statement following a visit to his bedside by the Greek ambassador Dimitris Caramitsos-Tziras.
The envoy has ordered that the Greek flag be flown at half-mast from his embassy building to “honour the London terror attack victims and to express solidarity of Greece to the UK government and people of Britain”.
Filis, who was trained in the food industry, moved to London in search of employment at the height of Greece’s economic crisis in 2011.
Speaking to Lamia Report, a news outlet in the central Greek town where Filis was raised, his parents said they had feared he might have been caught up in the attack.
“I wouldn’t wish it on any parent to be faced with the feeling that we had … he stared at death in the face,” his father, Giorgos, told the news website. “He said they were aiming for his carotid. With God’s help and with him throwing up his hand [in front of his face], he was hit on the head. If it had been a little bit lower, we don’t know what would have happened.”
Filis required eight stitches to his head and several hours of surgery for his kidney injury.
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Scotland Yard’s commissioner, Cressida Dick, says the authorities are confronting a “new reality” after the three terror attacks that have hit the UK in just 10 weeks.
Commander Mak Chishty, of the Metropolitan police, has delivered a statement on behalf of the capital’s Muslim community.
This terrorist attack is an attack on all communities, including Muslim communities.
Every time a terrorist attack takes place, Muslim communities either face or fear a backlash against them.
The Muslim community appeals to all sections within their own communities to root out the scourge of terrorism which hides amongst their own people and masquerades as Islam.
The Muslim community is alarmed and concerned that this attack by three people … would have required planning and yet was not reported.
It is the Islamic duty of every Muslim to be loyal to the country in which they live and we are now asking questions - to understand how extremism and hatred has taken hold within some elements of our own communities.
Terrorism and extremism is hurting Islam. Muslims must do more to stop such attacks from happening again and we want to know how we can play a greater role in the future.
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Two French citizens are missing after the London Bridge and Borough Market attack and one has been confirmed dead, France’s foreign minister has said.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, who met the families of some of the injured on Monday afternoon, said at a brief press conference at the French embassy in London that six French nationals remained in hospital, including four in a critical condition. Two were discharged on Monday.
Citing the ongoing investigation, Le Drian declined to name the victims, give details of their injuries or speculate about what could have happened to those who were missing.
“I wanted to come to London to show that France is at Britain’s side,” he said. “The UK has been hit for the third time in less than three months by a terrorist attack. We wanted to show our solidarity to all families of the victims and show we are all concerned by this, and to express our profound compassion.”
He said he would meet his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, later on Monday evening to discuss reinforcing the two countries’ counter-terrorism cooperation. “One of top priorities is to fight against propaganda and radicalisation on the internet,” he said.
“What is at stake is democracy; what is at stake is liberty, our way of life, our values. Against those who want to destroy all that, we will fight without concession. They will not win. This is truly a global struggle.”
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A vigil has been taking place near Tower Bridge, in central London.
The view of the crowds at the vigil from London Bridge pic.twitter.com/zdYvpCNOyO
— Ιman | ايمان (@ImaniAmrani) June 5, 2017
People of all religions turning up to the vigil, including the chaplaincy team from Guys' hospital pic.twitter.com/IVC2emoAQq
— Ιman | ايمان (@ImaniAmrani) June 5, 2017
Residents have come to show solidarity at their local park where the vigil is being held. pic.twitter.com/mfcrwhTpAw
— Ιman | ايمان (@ImaniAmrani) June 5, 2017
Minute of silence for the victims of Saturday's attack in London. pic.twitter.com/LPyYzJhEVl
— Ιman | ايمان (@ImaniAmrani) June 5, 2017
My colleague Hannah Ellis-Petersen was there. She reports that hundreds of people gathered in the shadow of city hall to pay their respects to all the victims of Saturday night’s attacks in Borough Market. Standing on stage flanked by the home secretary, Amber Rudd, and archbishop Justin Welby, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, gave a short but powerful speech, proclaiming that “London will never be broken by terrorism”.
The mayor said:
We are here in remembrance for the innocent lives lost and the people injured in the barbaric attack on our city on Saturday night.
London stands in defiance against this cowardly attack on our city, our people, our values and our way of life. I want to send a clear message to the sick and evil extremists who committed these hideous crimes. We will defeat you. You will not win.
As a proud and patriotic British Muslim I say this: you do not commit these disgusting acts in my name. Your perverse ideology has nothing to do with the true values of Islam and you will never succeed in dividing our city.
Khan thanked the “courageous” emergency services and those Londoners who had risked their lives to help others caught up in the violence. He emphasised that while terror and sorrow had struck at the heart of London, the values of its citizens remained steadfast and that “the love you have for one another will also be greater than the hate of the extremists”.
He added:
This is our city, these are our values and this is our way of life. London will never be broken by terrorism and we will put up a fight against extremism and we will defeat the terrorists.
Cockney Keith, the big issue vendor outside London Bridge, is among those at the vigil "we live in scary times but this city is resilient" pic.twitter.com/2j9aK6kByP
— Hannah EllisPetersen (@HannahEP) June 5, 2017
Hannah Jackson, 31 and Sam Williams, 31, brought their five-month-old baby Betsy to the vigil. They said it was an “act of unity and defiance. When these kinds of attacks are becoming more frequent in London, it feels so important for people from all different background and all different faiths to come together. We’ve just had a baby and we don’t want her to grow up in a city which is divided or defined by fear.”
They said they had been shaken by the fact the attacks had taken place in an area they went out in often. Jackson said:
It could so easily have been us or people we knew. I can’t help but feel this will make people afraid, when they are specifically targeting innocent people who are going out and enjoying themselves. I am worried what it will do to the spirit of London.
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One of the terrorists who attacked London on Saturday, killing seven people, had been previously known to police and MI5.
Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer, assistant commissioner Mark Rowley admitted that Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, had been investigated in 2015 and that a member of the public had called the anti-terrorism hotline to raise concerns. But Rowley said no evidence had been found of attack planning or criminality and the investigation had dropped into the “lower echelons” of priorities for counter-terrorism investigators.
Police named the second attacker as Rachid Redouane, 30, who claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan. He was not known to police and MI5 before the attack on Saturday.
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A statement from Scotland Yard said: “Khuram Shazad Butt was known to the police and MI5. However, there was no intelligence to suggest that this attack was being planned and the investigation had been prioritised accordingly. The other named man, Rachid Redouane, was not known.”
The Met’s assistant commissioner, Mark Rowley, added:
At any one time, MI5 and police are conducting around 500 active investigations, involving 3,000 subjects of interest. Additionally, there are around 20,000 individuals who are former subjects of interest, whose risk remains subject to review by MI5 and its partners.
The security and intelligence services and police have stopped 18 plots since 2013, including five since the Westminster attack two months ago.
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Releasing the names of two of the three attackers, Scotland Yard said:
Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, (20.4.90), was a British citizen who was born in Pakistan. Rachid Redouane, 30 (31.7.86) had claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan. He also used the name Rachid Elkhdar, with a different date of birth of 31.7.91. Inquiries are ongoing to confirm the identity of their accomplice.
Detectives would like to hear from anyone who has any information about these men that may assist them with the investigation. They are particularly keen to hear about places they may have frequented and their movements in the days and hours before the attack.
Police have now released images of both of the attackers named so far: Khuram Butt (left) and Rachid Redouane (right).
Khuram Butt, one of the three jihadi attackers who killed seven people in London on Saturday, was a supporter of the banned Islamist group al-Muhajiroun who only last month was spotted urging people in east London not to participate in the general election.
The 27-year old was described by locals in his neighbourhood of Barking, east London, as the son of parents from Jhelum, a town in Pakistan’s Punjab province. He is believed to have been brought up in Britain, become a keen supporter of Arsenal football club, whose shirt he wore during the attack, and to have spoken with a London accent. It is not clear whether he was born in the UK or abroad.
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Khuram Butt, one of the London attackers, appeared in the Channel 4 documentary the Jihadis Next Door last year.
The Met police’s assistant commissioner, Mark Rowley, said Butt was known to the security services but there was no evidence of “attack planning”.
Police name two of the attackers
Scotland Yard has named two of the attackers as Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, both from Barking, in east London.
The third has not yet been named.
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A vigil for the victims of Saturday night’s attack is due to start in London in about 10 minutes.
People starting to arrive for the vigil near London Bridge. pic.twitter.com/BgERaWthmf
— Ιman | ايمان (@ImaniAmrani) June 5, 2017
At the vigil for the London Bridge attack victims. Students from Eden Girls' School Waltham Forest have come to pay their respects pic.twitter.com/Y1gf4mooA1
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Speaking to some of the women who have come to lay flowers here at the vigil. pic.twitter.com/NiM62ZxIbs
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Mohammed Kozbar, the chair of the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, told the Guardian that he was worried by Theresa May’s comments after the attack.
“The measures she might take could affect the whole community, not just extremists,” he said. “Muslims have to be part of the solution.”
The government must accept some blame for its failures to protect the public, he added. “The prime minister shouldn’t put all the blame on others when she’s been in the government for the past seven years. Does she expect us as Muslims to stop these things alone? It’s for all of us to do.”
Finsbury Park mosque was once considered a centre for extremists, but in the past 10 years it has become a model of community relations.
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Londoners will gather at 6pm at Potters Fields Park, next to City Hall, for a vigil honouring the victims of Saturday’s attack.
Sadiq Khan announced the event in a statement on Sunday:
The mayor invites all Londoners – and everyone visiting our city – to come together in solidarity to remember those who have lost their lives in Saturday’s attack, to express sympathy with their families and loved ones and to show the world that we stand united in the face of those who seek to harm us and our way of life.
If you are at the vigil, we’d like to hear from you. Tell us about the event and share your stories and pictures via our callout – we’ll use some of them as part of our coverage.
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Faith leaders and representatives of civic and community groups came together under the banner of “One London One Community” at the East London mosque to condemn Saturday’s attack and call for unity.
Muhammad Habibur-Rahman, the mosque’s chair, said Londoners were united against “those who try to divide us”. He described the perpetrators as “evil terrorists” who espoused a “twisted narrative and perversion of the religion of Islam”.
The mosque had stopped extremists at the door, he said, but they “continue to harass out worshippers”.
He added:
Their hatred of mainstream Muslims rivals that of the extreme right.
Mehri Niknam, of the Joseph Interfaith Foundation, which comprises Jews and Muslims, welcomed condemnations of recent attacks but added:
To condemn is only halfway. We must also actively confront, loudly and clearly.
Adrian Newman, the Anglican bishop of Stepney, called on the public to reject “any tendency to scapegoat our Muslim neighbours”.
Sue Williams, the Tower Hamlets police commander, appealed to the Muslim community to “tell us who these people are. It is your duty as a citizen to tell us.”
Muslim women had faced abuse on public transport and local schools had cancelled outings for fear of a backlash in the aftermath of Saturday’s attack, said Sufia Alam, of the Maryam women’s centre.
Among more than a dozen speakers were two rabbis and representatives of Citizens UK, Stand Up to Racism and Forward Thinking.
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46 shots were fired by police officers during Saturday's attack
The police watchdog, the IPCC said 46 shots in total were fired by eight police officers – three officers from City of London police and five from the Metropolitan Police Service.
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Here is the clip of Melissa McMullan, 30, tearfully telling Sky News that she believes her brother to be dead.
The sister of 32-year-old James McMullan says she believes he was killed in Saturday's attack in London pic.twitter.com/3WLv4XbU5w
— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 5, 2017
She said:
This morning we received news from the police that my brother’s bank card was found on one of the bodies from Saturday night’s brutal attack. They are unable to formally identify him until the coroner’s report begins tomorrow.
While our pain will never diminish it is important for us to carry on with our lives in direct opposition to those who would try to destroy us, and remember that hatred is the refuge of small-minded individuals and will only breed more. This is not a course we will follow despite our loss.
She sent condolences to other people who lost loved ones in the attack and thanked the emergency services for their response. She described the attackers as “deranged and deluded”.
She added:
From his [James’s] friends who were with him on the night, they want everyone to know what a generous and caring friend he was. Words will never be able to match his essence. There will only ever be one James. Nowhere else will you find such humour and unique personality and someone who puts friends and family above all else. He was an inspiration.
McMullan, from Hackney, who was setting up an e-learning business, had not been seen since he stepped out of the Barrowboy and Banker pub on Borough High Street for a cigarette immediately before the attackers crashed their van directly outside. He had been meeting up with old school friends.
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Summary
The investigation and suspects
- Police raided two more addresses early this morning, one in Newham and another in Barking. Police said a number of people had been detained and spoken to. The identities of three suspected attackers who shot dead in Borough Market will be released as soon as operationally possible, according to police.
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An Irish identity card was reportedly found on one of the three attackers. The Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, said there was “an international dimension” to the changing terrorist threat facing the UK, but the majority of recent attacks and plots have been domestic in focus.
- Eleven people remain in custody as police continue to search properties in east London. One man was seen being led away as police continued to search a property in Dagenham, east London. Police also searched properties in Newham and Barking after early morning raids on Monday.
- Questions have been asked about how much police and the intelligence services knew about the three men who carried out the attack. One neighbour told the Guardian she had reported one of the men to police two years ago after fears he was attempting to radicalise children.
- Police cordons around London Bridge railway station were lifted earlier than planned. The bridge itself was open to traffic and pedestrians. New barriers have been erected on Westminster bridge to separate pedestrians from vehicles.
Victims
- The family of James McMullan, 32, have said they believe he was among the seven people killed in Saturday’s attack, Sky News reported, making him the second victim to be named. He has not been seen since he became separated from his friends while smoking outside a bar, and his sister said his bank card was found on a body at the scene.
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The first known victim of the attack was named as Christine Archibald, from Castlegar, Canada. In a statement, her family said: “We grieve the loss of our beautiful, loving daughter and sister. She had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and respected.”
- A French man was also among those killed, according to the French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian. A 39-year-old Spanish man is among those missing.
- The number of people in critical care as a result of injuries sustained in the attack has fallen from 21 on Sunday to 18 today, NHS England has said. There remain 36 people being treated in hospital.
- Four police officers were injured in the attack, including two on-duty Met officers. One of those injured was a British Transport Police officer, who was stabbed in the head as he he tried to foil the attack. Another was an off-duty Met officer, who remains in hospital in a serious condition.
Political reaction
- Theresa May has dismissed claims that she underfunded the police when she was home secretary. In response to repeated questions about this, she said counter-terrorism budgets had been protected, that overall police budgets had been protected since 2015, and that the number of armed officers was increasing. (See 11.18pm.)
- Steve Hilton, David Cameron’s former director of strategy, said May should resign because of her record. (See 8.59am.)
- Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, also said May should resign, although he later clarified his position, saying people should vote her out of office on Thursday. (See 4.30pm.)
- Corbyn insisted he has always defended the right of the police to shoot attackers in order to defend life. May used to speech in London to argue that Corbyn was unfit to be prime minister and that he had “opposed the use of shoot to kill”. Corbyn said claims that he opposed shoot to kill were based on a BBC report subsequently deemed inaccurate by the BBC Trust.
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Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, on Twitter. (See 3.02pm.) Khan has chosen not to retaliate. Earlier, May said Khan was doing “an excellent job” as London mayor, but she said only reluctantly that Trump had been “wrong” to criticise Khan in a tweet he posted yesterday. (See 3.28pm.)
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Melissa McMullan said her brother James was believed to have died as his bank card was found on a body at the scene.
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James McMullan believed to have died in attack
The family of James McMullan, 32 have said they believe he was among the seven people killed in Saturday’s attack, Sky News reported.
He has not been seen since he became separated from his friends while smoking outside a bar.
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The Muslim Council of Britain says more than 130 imams and religious leaders from diverse backgrounds have refused to perform the funeral prayer for the London attackers, in what it calls “an unprecedented move”. They have also urged others to do likewise. In a statement, they say:
Alongside our friends and neighbours, we mourn this attack on our home, society and people and feel pain for the suffering of the victims and their families. We pray to God that the perpetrators be judged in accordance with the gravity of their crimes in the hereafter. Their acts and wilful dismissal of our religious principles alienates them from any association with our community for whom the inviolability of every human life is the founding principle.
Consequently, and in light of other such ethical principles which are quintessential to Islam, we will not perform the traditional Islamic funeral prayer for the perpetrators and we also urge fellow imams and religious authorities to withdraw such a privilege. This is because such indefensible actions are completely at odds with the lofty teachings of Islam.
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Further to our earlier update, Merseyside police say they have arrested two men on suspicion of inciting racial hatred in relation to videos shared on social media yesterday about the recent terror attacks in London and Manchester.
A spokesman for Merseyside police said:
A 39-year-old man from Mossley Hill has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence following a video shared on social media, in which a man is seen with a bladed weapon making comments about recent terrorist attacks. The 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and has been taken to a police station for questioning.
A 39-year-old man from Kirkby has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence following a separate video which shows a man in an Everton shirt making comments about recent terrorist attacks. The 39-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and has been taken to a police station for questioning.
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Jeremy Corbyn has now recorded a TV clip clarifying his remark earlier saying he supported calls for Theresa May to resign over police cuts. (See 12.39pm.) He is now saying he just wants people to vote her our of office on Thursday.
Asked if he wanted her to resign, he replied:
No. I think we should vote on Thursday to decide who our MPs are and decide who our government is going to be.
Q: But you said that you would back calls for her to resign? Are you backing away from that now?
I’m not backing away from anything. What I’m saying is there’s an election on now, there’s a choice before everybody. I’m articulating what is a deep anger amongst those people that have seen 20,000 police officers lose their jobs, that have seen firefighters lose their jobs, ambulance crews unable to cope with the [pressures] they are under. I think she needs to think about what she did as home secretary.
To be fair to Corbyn, asking if he backed calls for Theresa May to resign was a fairly daft question in the first place because the election makes any assessment of whether May is or is not fit to hold office irrelevant. But if Corbyn had sidestepped the question, and answered it originally as he is answering it now, he would have saved himself a bit of bother.
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The MI5 chief, Andrew Parker, has released a statement. In it, he says:
With the rest of the country we are all appalled by the dreadful terrorist attack in London on Saturday night. Our thoughts are with everyone affected.
We are extremely grateful for the numerous messages of support and encouragement from members of the public as we continue, alongside our partners, our unceasing efforts against the terrorist threat.
The employers of Ignacio Echeverría, the 39-year-old Spaniard who has not been seen since apparently trying to help a woman caught up in Saturday’s attacks, have hired a detective to help the family in its search, the Spanish news agency Efe reports.
The investigator, paid for by HSBC, is understood to be accompanying the missing man’s sister Isabel as she goes from hospital to hospital in London looking for her brother. Efe said family sources said the detective was “a high-level person who knows the procedures and how to handle the situation”.
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Mak Chishty, a commander at the Metropolitan police and the force’s lead on hate crime, read out a statement on behalf of “London’s Muslim community” outside New Scotland Yard, urging Muslims to “do more”.
He said:
This terrorist attack is an attack on all communities, including Muslim communities.
Every time a terrorist attack takes place, Muslim communities either face or fear a backlash against them. The Muslim community appeals to all sections within their own communities to root out the scourge of terrorism which hides amongst their own people and masquerades as Islam.
The Muslim community is alarmed and concerned that this attack by three people would have required planning and yet was not reported. It is the Islamic duty of every Muslim to be loyal to the country in which they live and we are now asking questions to understand how extremism and hatred has taken hold within some elements of our own communities.
Terrorism and extremism is hurting Islam. Muslims must do more to stop such attacks from happening again and we want to know how we can play a greater role in the future.
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Nicola Sturgeon has tetchily confirmed she fully expects Scotland to be independent by the mid-2020s, in answer to a poorly phrased question by Julie Etchingham on ITV Tonight, to which a Scottish National party leader’s answer will always be yes.
In an excerpt released on Twitter before the interview is broadcast tonight, which includes a question on her husband, Peter Murrell, chief executive of the SNP, Etchingham asks Sturgeon whether she believes Scotland will have voted for independence by 2025.
There is only one SNP response to that, not least given Sturgeon insists there will be a referendum soon after Brexit and she is highly unlikely to forecast losing that.
She initially responds: “I think Scotland will be independent yes but that’s a choice for the Scottish people. I have always believed…” Etchingham presses that 2025 date again. Sturgeon answers: “Look, you’re putting arbitrary dates in my…” before changing tack: “I believe Scotland will be independent. I have always believed that.”
The country, she adds, will always remain part of the British Isles, regardless of independence. No one is left much the wiser on the when.
Scotland will be independent by 2025, @nicolasturgeon tells @julieetchitv. See the full interview tonight at 8pm on @ITV. #LeaderInterviews pic.twitter.com/1tdN83ofPW
— Tonight (@ITVTonight) June 5, 2017
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Sadiq Khan is not responding to the latest provocation from President Trump. This is from PoliticsHome’s Kevin Schofield.
Spokeswoman for Sadiq Khan on latest Trump tweet: "The Mayor is focused on dealing with Saturday’s horrific and cowardly attack."
— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) June 5, 2017
Earlier Theresa May was asked about President Trump, and his comments about the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, in her Q&A with journalists in London. In response to the first question she sided with Khan strongly, saying he was doing “an excellent job”. But the journalists found it harder to get her to say anything critical about the American president. After two unsuccessful attempts a reporter asked what Trump would have to do to make her say anything negative about him. She thought he was wrong about climate change, she said. But what about Khan? Finally, this prompted her to take a swipe at the tweet he posted yesterday (albeit in the mildest terms). May replied:
I think Sadiq Khan is doing a good job and it’s wrong to say anything else - he’s doing a good job.
- May says Trump was “wrong” to criticise Sadiq Khan on Twitter yesterday.
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Trump renews his criticism of Sadiq Khan over London Bridge attack
President Trump has renewed his criticism of Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London. He has just posted this.
Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017
Khan himself has not responded directly to this tweet that Trump posted yesterday.
At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2017
But Trump’s “think fast” comment seems to be a reference to how Khan’s office and supporters pointed out that Trump was quoting Khan out of context. The “no reason to be alarmed” quote came from this passage in a statement from the mayor.
My message to Londoners and visitors to our great city is to be calm and vigilant today. You will see an increased police presence today, including armed officers and uniformed officers. There is no reason to be alarmed by this.
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Merseyside police are reported to have issued arrest warrants in relation Islamophobic videos, after clips were circulated showing a man with a hand grenade and a machete blade making threats against members of Muslim communities in the wake of the London Bridge attack.
Tell Mama, which monitors Anti-Muslim attacks, said the videos were removed from Facebook.
It said Merseyside police had issued arrest warrants over the videos. A spokesman for Merseyside police said it was about to issue a statement on the matter.
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There are concerns for Australian Sara Zelenak, 21, reportedly last seen running from the attack on London Bridge where she became separated from friends.
She works as a nanny, and has not been in contact with family or friends since, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported. The station said Australian consular staff in London were working with her friends to try and track her down.
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May's Q&A
Theresa May is now taking questions.
She says now is not the time to be talking about a Scottish independence referendum.
Q: Jeremy Corbyn says you should resign. Will you do so now and save us the bother of an election?
May says the election is about who has the leadership to take this country forward.
She says she and the Conservative party have the vision to take the country forward.
Q: Will you remove VAT from the police so they can spend more on police in Scotland?
May repeats the answer on police funding she has been giving all day. (See 11.18am.)
Q: You keep saying Labour was arguing for 10% of police cuts. But aren’t you being disingenuous. Labour was just saying that cuts of 10% were manageable. They were not advocating that.
May does not accept that. She says Labour was supporting cuts.
Q: It was put to Nicola Sturgeon this morning that a bad Brexit deal would be good for the SNP. She denied wanting this. Do you believe her?
May said the Conservatives are the only party with a plan for Brexit.
And that’s it.
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A French citizen missing since Saturday night is understood to be Xavier Thomas. His girlfriend, Christine Delcros, was seriously injured. Her sister, Nathalie Cros Brohan, posted online that she was on her way to London to visit Christine in hospital. She made an appeal for anyone with news of Xavier Thomas to get in touch, adding: “We are terribly worried.”
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Theresa May's speech in Edinburgh
Theresa May is now speaking at a campaign event in Edinburgh.
Tories in Scotland waiting for PM to arrive have been told to make sure there's lots of cheering or 'it will look like there is no one here' pic.twitter.com/mvNRR5MhBC
— Sam Lister (@sam_lister_) June 5, 2017
Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, is introducing her. She says the terrorists who struck on Saturday night “don’t like strong women”.
She says the Tories have a message for Nicola Sturgeon: “We don’t want your second referendum.”
May is speaking now. She says in this week, of all weeks, we stand together as one United Kingdom.
Echoing what she said in her speech this morning, she says the election is about leadership, and about who is best placed to deliver Brexit.
Barriers have been installed on three central London bridges following the latest terror attack, PA reports.
The structures have been introduced to stop traffic from mounting the pavement on Westminster, Lambeth and Waterloo bridges.
But some cyclists claim they have made journeys more dangerous by reducing the width of cycle lanes.
Commuters posted photographs of the barriers on social media as they made their way to work on Monday.
Early start - and not a great sight for Londoners to wake up to. Concrete bollards being installed on Lambeth Bridge. pic.twitter.com/cvv26PmEFF
— Andy Silvester (@silvesterldn) June 5, 2017
Sad to see new barrier on Waterloo Bridge - tho it's for our protection #London #StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/qEdVMnl0DT
— Debbie Lye (@Debolye) June 5, 2017
London’s bridges have been targeted in two terror attacks in recent weeks.
On Saturday pedestrians were mown down by a van on London Bridge before attackers stabbed people in Borough Market, killing seven.
Five people were killed on 22 March, when Khalid Masood drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and then stabbed a police officer outside the Palace of Westminster.
Westminster city council’s leader, Nickie Aiken, called for the barriers to be left in place in the long-term to boost security.
She said: “People in Westminster need this kind of protective measure – it is sensible and proportionate. “The kind of security barrier now in place on Westminster Bridge needs to be part of a permanent solution.”
But Sam Jones, campaigns coordinator at Cycling UK, said there is “clear concern” among cyclists over the impact of the barriers on road safety, with some claiming the structures will reduce the distance between motor vehicles and bicycles.
He told PA that while it was “understandable and right” that security was being enhanced, the charity wanted to work with the relevant authorities to ensure “high standards of cycle provision can be maintained”.
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Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, has just held a press conference in central London with six union leaders and officials representing emergency and public service workers to highlight what they all said was the impact of Theresa May’s cuts on security and counter-terrorism.
This is a potentially difficult argument to make, less than 48 hours after the London Bridge attack, and all the unions are previous critics of such cuts. But one of the union leaders, Mark Serwotka, who heads the PCS union, which represents police community support officers (PCSOs) and other civilian staff at the Met police, and border force workers, denied it was insensitive timing.
He said: “Nobody here will say: ‘If it wasn’t for this cut, that wouldn’t have happened.’ It would be folly to say so. But what we can say is that the figures speak for themselves and questions need to be asked – you need to put resources in to continually keep people safe.”
“I think it would be a dereliction of duty if those people representing frontline workers did not get the message across that the swingeing cuts that took place under Theresa May’s watch are having a very real effect.”
Serwotka said the number of PCSOs in the Met had fallen 68% from 2010, while Ben Priestly from Unison said the equivalent fall outside the capital was 38%.
Fiona Farmer from Unite said low pay also made it hard to recruit civilian police staff.
She said: “People can earn more working for Vodafone and other call centres than thy can working as police support staff. You can only imagine the difference between having to deal with a member of the public who can’t quite get their phone to work or dealing with one of the calls that someone had to pick up over the weekend.”
Dave Green, of the Fire Brigades Union, also said cuts had had an impact: “Our members will attend anything they’re asked to attend, but we constrained by numbers, by resources.”
Serwotka was asked about May’s assertion she had protected counter-terror resources, and said this was not the case in London: “We believed from the information we have that there has been a significant cut in the counter-terrorism budget in London in the period when Theresa May was home secretary.”
The Conservatives might well say this is to be expected – union leaders seeking more resources for their members. Others might argue it’s too early to be making such arguments. But Starmer and the union officials all stressed they only blamed the attackers for Saturday’s events, and that they did not hold May responsible for the recent attacks taking place.
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The Metropolitan police commander for engagement, Mak Chishty, the highest-ranking officer of Muslim faith, has called on Muslim communities to do more to root out extremism.
Speaking outside New Scotland Yard, Chishty said: “We have had three attacks across the UK in three months, which requires a step change – a different direction and a different movement to counter the scourge of terrorism, extremism and hatred that we have in our communities at present.”
Surrounded by Muslim community leaders, Chishty read out a statement on behalf of all Muslim communities. It appealed “to all sections within their own communities to root out the scourge of terrorism which hides amongst their own people and masquerades as Islam”.
It added: “The Muslim community is alarmed and concerned that this attack by three people, which would have required planning ... was not reported. It is the Islamic duty of every Muslim to be loyal to the country in which they live. We are now asking questions to understand how extremism and hatred has taken hold within some elements of our own communities.
“Muslims must do more to stop such attacks from happening again and we want to know how we can play a greater role in the future.
The statement also said: “We are standing together as one community supporting each other and trying to keep hate crime, and especially Islamophobic crime, down by showing the strength of unity and bond between all communities.”
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The Muslim Council of Britain has said it agrees with Theresa May that “enough is enough” in relation to extremism and pledged to work in partnership with the government and the prime minister to “keep our country safe”.
Harun Khan, secretary-general of the MCB, an umbrella organisation, said he was angry about the London Bridge attack and “we want to do something about it”.
Speaking on behalf of the MCB’s affiliates, he added: “That is why we agree with the prime minister that things must change. Enough is enough.
“We are ready to have those difficult conversations, as equal citizens with an equal stake in this fight.
“I am pleased that the prime minister is speaking about conversation: it implies that we must listen to one another and work together to be part of a truly United Kingdom.”
Khan said it was in everyone’s interest to stop the perpetrators of such attacks.
“We know that many of these people have previously led a life of delinquency. It is often the case that the path towards extremism is outside of the mosque and at the margins of society.
“We are all grappling with this hateful ideology. This is an ideology that makes killing and hating cool, and uses the words of Islam as a cloak to justify it.
“As one expert has said, this not a radicalisation of Islam, but Islamisation of radicalism.”
British Muslims must play their part in turning “people’s minds away from this death cult”, said Khan.
The MCB would escalate its campaign for a “grassroots response to the terrorist challenge”.
Mosques would be encouraged to report suspicious activity. “We will also extend our hand of partnership and cooperation to the government and prime minister, to work together keep our country safe.”
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A Greek man who was among those injured in Saturday night’s attack has been identified as Antonis Filis.
The émigré, who was knifed in the kidney and whose plight first became known via a video posted on the Sun’s website, has been identified as the 35-year-old grandson of a former mayor of Lamia, in central Greece.
Greece’s state news agency said Filis, who also sustained head injuries, had been with his girlfriend in Borough Market when he was stabbed by the assailants. He is currently recovering in a London hospital after being operated on.
“We are in open contact with doctors and they say he is out of danger,” his father, Giorgos, was quoted as saying.
Filis, who works for a company in London, moved to the UK after failing to find work in Greece at the height of the country’s economic crisis in 2011. In a snatched mobile phone conversation caught on camera moments after the attack, he is heard in Greek telling an interlocutor that he is bleeding and doctors are attending to him.
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The German foreign office has confirmed that at least two German citizens were injured in Saturday night’s attack, one of them sustaining serious injuries.
A spokesperson would not confirm whether the two victims were tourists or German citizens based in the UK.
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At his news briefing with Cressida Dick, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, said he was “furious” about the terrorists using Islam to try to justify what they did.
The act of these three men on Saturday night was cowardly, was evil. And I’m angry and furious that these three men are seeking to justify their action by using the faith that I belong to in order to justify their actions.
The ideology they follow is perverse, it is poisonous, and it has no place in Islam. And I condemn this terrorist attack but also the poisonous ideology these men and others follow.
He said there would be a vigil at Potters Field Park at 6pm tonight to remember the victims, to thank the police and emergency services and to show “that London won’t be cowed by terrorism”.
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Critically injured falls to 18
Three of those injured in the attacks are no longer being treated in critical care but are still in hospital, NHS England has just said in a brief update.
That means the number of casualties receiving critical care has fallen from 21 yesterday to 18.
King’s College hospital, the Royal London hospital and University College hospital now each have one fewer casualty receiving such care. King’s now has seven patients in that category, the Royal London has five and UCLH has one.
However, all 36 people admitted due to their injuries were still being cared for in those three hospitals or at St Mary’s or St Thomas’s, NHS England said.
It gave no other details about the condition of any of the injured.
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The British Red Cross has set up an appeal on the fundraising platform JustGiving to support the victims and their families.
The UK Solidarity Fund has already raised more than £70,000 from more than 3,000 people. All proceeds will support those affected by the terrorist events in London and Manchester and any similar incidents in the future in the UK.
The appeal comes after a Red Cross JustGiving page raised more than £1.3m for the victims of the Manchester attack.
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Here are some more lines from Jeremy Corbyn’s inteview with ITV News.
- Corbyn criticised the government for cutting police numbers but declined to say that that made Theresa May to some extent responsible for what happened on Saturday night. Asked if he held May “in any way” responsible and if the cuts to the police had contributed to the London Bridge atrocity, he replied:
The primary responsibility for this lies with those who did it, they killed people in cold blood in a disgusting and appalling way and there’s no words other than total condemnation.
On the issues of policing, the government has been warned repeatedly about police cuts, and the Police Federation and many others [have said] how 20,000 have gone down over the past seven years.
We’ve said we’d put 10,000 back immediately and also increase the number of security officers that are available, because clearly intelligence is a very important part of this.
- He denied ever opposing police being allowed to operate a “shoot-to-kill” policy when lives are at risk. The Tories have repeatedly accused Corbyn of opposing shoot-to-kill, on the basis of an interview he gave to the BBC in 2015, and May raised this again in her speech and Q&A this morning. But Corbyn said his comments had been taken out of context and the BBC Trust had concluded that the BBC report did not accurately report what he meant. He said:
I have not changed my mind on shoot-to-kill. The criticisms that were made of me were I think wrong and unfair and indeed the BBC Trust upheld an objection on this.
As far as I am concerned the police act, as they did on Saturday, as they did in Manchester, in defence of innocent life. That is a reasonable and proportionate response, as happened in Westminster.
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In Barking, another neighbour said the suspected attacker wearing an Arsenal top when he was killed by the police “had issues”, and described an ongoing dispute over parking.
Asim Oddin, 39, who lived near the suspect, said: “He used to park outside the flats which isn’t allowed and blocked everybody. We had an altercation when I told him not to park here. He said not to follow the system; he was quite rude.”
Oddin also described how the man would bring shopping home from the local supermarket in a trolley.
“Who does that? It’s just odd. He definitely had issues.”
THE SUN: Jihadi killer in an Arsenal shirt #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/n6pc7xr7Jp
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) June 4, 2017
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Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, and Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, are making a joint appearance at Borough Market.
In response to a question, Dick says all of us need to look at the overall strategy, tactics and resources available for counter-terrorism in light of the three attacks in the UK this year.
But arming every officer is not a sensible option, she says.
Having highly-mobile armed officers available in London 24 hours a day is the best solution, she says.
Khan says we all need to work together to solve this problem. Five attacks have been thwarted recently, he says. London lived through 7/7. Terrorists want to harm our way of life. He says we must stop that.
He says the police need the support of citizens. But it is also true that the more resources they have, the easier it is for them to do their job. It is a fact that the Met has lost £600m from its budget. There are plans to cut the Met budget in the future by £400m, and to change the policing formula too, which would also cut the Met’s funding.
He says, as a capital city, London has to police big occasions and state visits, “some welcome, some less so”. (That is a dig at President Trump.)
He says as mayor he will argue for the Met to get the resources it needs.
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Here is the quote where Jeremy Corbyn said Theresa May should resign over police cuts. Asked in an ITV interview if he supported calls for her to resign, he replied:
Indeed I would, because there’s been calls made by a lot of very responsible people on this who are very worried that she was at the Home Office for all this time, presided over these cuts in police numbers and is now saying that we have a problem - yes, we do have a problem, we should never have cut the police numbers.
But calling for a serving prime minister to resign three days before polling day may not seem particularly realistic and, when he was asked about May resigning for a second time, Corbyn said the election might be a better way of removing her. He said:
We’ve got an election on Thursday and that’s perhaps the best opportunity to deal with it.
UPDATE: Later Corbyn’s spokesman sought to clarify the remarks, saying: “Jeremy is saying he believes the public will judge her on her record. We have an election on Thursday where there is an opportunity to vote in a Labour government for the many not the few, one that will invest in police and security services rather than cut them.”
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The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, and the Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, are due to give statements to the press at the scene of the attack.
Waiting near #londonbridgestation for press statements by @SadiqKhan and @metpoliceuk commissioner Cressida Dick. #londonterrorattack pic.twitter.com/cvBdan5O4h
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) June 5, 2017
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A neighbour of one of the suspected attackers said he saw the van used in the attack outside a block of flats in Barking, east London, on Friday – and again on Saturday afternoon.
Michael Mimbo, 25, said he had known the man who was pictured in an Arsenal top after he had been shot dead by police in London Bridge for three years.
“I saw him with the van on Friday,” said Mimbo, who lived next to the attacker’s flat in the Elizabeth Fry block.
“He had parked it right outside the flats and it was blocking the road. Cars couldn’t get past and there was a bit of aggro.”
Mimbo identified the van from an online picture and said several neighbours had seen it being driven at speed the wrong way up a one-way street outside the flats on Saturday afternoon.
“There are lots of kids play round here so people were pretty cross.” He said he went out into the street at half time in the Champions League final – about 8.30pm – and the van had gone.”
But I saw his red car being parked up as I walked past although I couldn’t see who was in it.”
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The London Evening Standard carries one of the last images of Christine Archibald, the first victim of the attack to be named. It shows her with her fiance, Tyler Ferguson, in whose arms she died.
Today's @EveningStandard on the tragic last moments of victim of London attack + first interview with @theresa_may & @SadiqKhan article pic.twitter.com/TTeD0a5RSJ
— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) June 5, 2017
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The Guardian’s Owen Jones says Theresa May has serious questions to answer over police cuts. Here’s his column.
Ex-senior Metropolitan police officer Peter Kirkham has accused the government of lying about the number of armed officers on the streets following the attack. Speaking to Sky News, Kirkham said the police service “is in crisis” due to public spending cuts.
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Jeremy Corbyn has said Theresa May should resign because of her record on police funding, ITV’s Rachel Younger reports.
BREAKING: @jeremycorbyn tells me Theresa May should resign as Prime Minister over her record regarding police funding
— rachel younger (@rachyoungeritv) June 5, 2017
The Muslim owner of Borough Market’s largest restaurant has spoken of his concerns over community relations at the market following Saturday’s terror attacks which killed seven people.
Iqbal Wahhab, the founder of Roast, said there could be a change of attitude towards Muslims within wider society and within the market’s community of traders and workers following the latest attack.
“How people respond will take a few more days to unravel. Borough Market is an incredibly tight-knit community – we are all there with a common purpose and a common cause.
“I hope this won’t break the resolve of people to stay united. There will be people who, whether they articulate it or not, will feel resentful towards people whose religion has been used to justify these terrible attacks. It’s understandable,” he told the Guardian.
Roast, a first-floor British restaurant overlooking the covered market, is yards from where two of the three alleged terrorists were shot and killed after terrorising thousands of people drinking and eating near London Bridge in south London.
During the incident, dozens of people took shelter in the restaurant as events unfolded below them. Reports claimed that the assailants were at one point seen attacking someone outside Roast’s entrance.
Wahhab, who chaired the the government’s ethnic minority employment group for nine years, employs at least 10 Muslims out of 100 members of staff at the restaurant. He was away from the restaurant when the incident happened but has since spoken to members of staff about the attacks.
“In the general spirit of how Borough Market works, people came together during the attack. It is such a busy area - on the weekends especially. It is clearly an obvious target,” he said.
Wahhab, 53, was born in Bangladesh and is also an adviser to the anti-extremist pressure group the Quilliam Foundation. He said he naturally agrees with exploring new measures to combat extremism but is sceptical that longer sentences, such as proposed by Theresa May, will help.
“I don’t know about tougher sentences - if you are a suicidal bomber or attacker, longer sentences won’t deter you,” he said.
The government should rely less upon religious leaders and really try to bring integrated Muslims on board, people who live their lives in a contented manner who say there is scope to prosper in the west. We should actively engage Muslim professionals instead of professional Muslims.”
Tens of thousands of food lovers are drawn every weekend to the market, which traces its history at least to the 13th century but may date as far back as Roman times. Originally based at the southern side of London bridge, its 100 or so stalls now occupy a network of railway viaducts near the Thames in Southwark.
There are more than 100 traders, who run restaurants, bars, wholesalers of staple British fare and high quality “delicatessen” retailers.
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Q: Why would Nicola Sturgeon not have a mandate for a second independence referendum after the election?
May says now is not the time for a second independence referendum.
Q: We have had three terror attacks this year. Do you regard that as a government failure, and an indictment of your record?
May says we have had three attacks. But five attacks have been foiled.
As the terror threat evolves, the government’s response must change, she says.
Q: Do you accept that, if the UK wants to remain part of some EU justice and home affairs mechanism, like the Schengen information system, the UK will have to remain under the jurisdiction of the European court of justice?
May says the government will want to keep some of these measures. There will have to be oversight. But she says the jurisdiction of the ECJ over UK law will end.
Q: Corbyn says he will give the police new resources. Can you match that?
May says people should look at Corbyn’s record. He has always opposed giving the police new powers.
Q: President Trump mocked Sadiq Khan. Would a period of silence from him be welcome?
May praises Khan for his response to the London Bridge attack. She does not mention Trump.
Q: How many seats do you need to win to justify calling the election?
May says she never predicts election results.
Q: Why did you accuse the police of crying wolf when they opposed police cuts?
May says that is a reference to a speech she gave saying the Police Federation should reform. They did reform.
Q: Steve Hilton has criticised your record on police cuts. What is your response?
May says she is not the only person to have been criticised by Hilton.
Q: What would Trump have to say for you to criticise him?
May says she has said she disagreed with him over climate change.
Q: But what about Sadiq Khan?
May says it is wrong to say Khan has not been doing a good job.
Q: Will you hold a sweeping reshuffle after the election?
May refuses to answer.
And that’s it. The Q&A is over.
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Here’s a guide to the properties raided so far
Religious leaders must take responsibility for tackling actions taken in the name of faith, Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has said.
“Throughout history religious tradition, scriptures have been twisted and misused by people” to justify violence, Welby told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
He added that the behaviour of religious leaders sometime permitted and encouraged that.
“If something is happening in our faith tradition, we have to take responsibility for being very clear in countering it.”
To say that acts such as the London Bridge attack had nothing to do with Islam “is not getting us anywhere”, he said while stressing that Muslim leaders and organisations had been quick to issue statements of condemnation.
It was “like saying Srebrenica had nothing to do with Christianity”, he said, referring to the massacre of 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in July 1995.
Welby added: “One of the problems in this country is a … lack of religious literacy.” The authorities tackling terrorism “often don’t understand the very basic doctrines of the faith they’re dealing with…
“They are often people who are unable to put themselves in the shoes of religious believers and understand a way of looking at the world that says that this defines your whole life, every single aspect of who you are and what you are.”
There was fundamental problem with cohesion in the UK, Welby said. “An extraordinary majority of Muslims and everyone else have a single view of what kind of country they want to live in.
“If we attack or persecute or go against a particular group of people on the grounds of their faith alone, rather than what they want to do or the arguments they’re putting forward of violence and terror, the terrorists will give three cheers, and say: ‘Thank you, you’ve done our work for us.’
“Every time a Muslim is abused on a bus or a mosque is attacked, the terrorists have taken another step forward.”
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Q: Do you accept that you were wrong to accuse those who criticised the police cuts of “crying wolf”. Do you accept that that was wrong, and would you reverse police cuts?
May says she has already addressed this. She repeats the points made earlier. See 11.18am.
Q: [From the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg] On your watch the number of police officers and armed police officers fell, and control orders were abandoned. Will you reverse those decisions?
May says control orders were being knocked down in the courts. The government has given more powers to the police, she says.
She says an extra 1,500 armed officers are being hired. But it is not just about resources; it is about powers.
She repeats the point about supporting shoot-to-kill.
Q: You had a public row with Michael Gove in 2014, when he criticised you for not being willing to “drain the swamp” in relation to violent extremism. He said you just wanted to beat back the crocodiles.
May says she has always wanted to tackle extremism, not just violent extremism.
But the government has to respond to the changing threat, she says. That is why she wants further measures on this.
Q: Will you bring back control orders?
May says Tpims, which replaced control orders, have been enhanced.
And the government has given the police new powers, for example in relation to stopping terror suspects travelling abroad.
Q; Do you regret cutting community policy budgets?
May repeats the point about Labour backing police cuts in 2015. See 11.18am.
Q: We have seen headlines saying the UK is “reeling” in foreign papers. Is that right?
No, says May. She says we have seen the resolute British spirit.
Q: What is your view of Sadiq Khan, and what foreign leaders (ie, Donald Trump) are saying about him?
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May says Khan is doing an “excellent job”.
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What we know so far
- The terrorist threat level remains at severe as police continue to raid properties in east London in connection with Saturday’s attack which left seven people dead and 21 people in a critical condition. The identities of three suspect attackers, who shot dead in Borough Market, will be released as soon as operationally possible, according to police.
- Isis has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack, although this has not been verified and details of the claim were sketchy. In a statement published late on Sunday by the Amaq news agency, which usually carries its claims, it said: “A detachment of Islamic State fighters executed yesterday’s London attack.
- An Irish identity card was reportedly found on one of the three attackers. Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick said that there was “an international dimension” to the changing terrorist threat facing the UK, but the majority of recent attacks and plots have been domestic in focus.
- Eleven people remain in custody as police continue to search property in east London. One man was seen being led away as police continue to search a property in Dagenham, east London. Police also searched properties in Newham and Barking after early morning raids on Monday.
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The first known victim of the attack was named as Christine Archibald from Castlegar, Canada. In a statement, her family said: “We grieve the loss of our beautiful, loving daughter and sister. She had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and respected.”
- A French man was also among those killed, according to the French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian. A 39-year-old Spanish man is among those missing.
- Four police officers were injured in the attack, including two on-duty Metropolitan officers. One of those injured was a British Transport officer, who was stabbed in the head as he he tried to foil the attack. Another was an off-duty Met officer, who remains in hospital in a serious condition.
- Questions have been asked about how much police and the intelligence services knew about the three men who carried out the attack. One neighbour told the Guardian she had reported the man to police two years ago after fears he was attempting to radicalise children.
- Police cordons around London Bridge railway station were lifted earlier than planned. The bridge itself was open to traffic and pedestrians. New barriers have been erected on Westminster bridge to separate pedestrians from vehicles.
May's Q&A
Theresa May is now taking questions.
Q: Cressida Dick said this morning we had to look at the case for more police officers. Do you agree, and were you wrong to cut numbers.
May reply is almost word for word the same as it was when she was asked this earlier. See 11.18am.
May says she supports “absolutely” shoot to kill. We saw how important that was on Saturday night, she said.
(Corbyn has had to clarify his stance on this, but insisted last night he did support the use of lethal force in these circumstances.)
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May says she is speaking in the same room in central London where she launched her leadership campaign last summer.
She said at the time that it was not the time for a prime minister who would have to learn on the job. That is even more true now, she says.
The election will be about who can provide the best leadership for Britain.
And that’s it. May has finished her speech.
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Theresa May is still speaking.
She says Corbyn would throw away all the work the government has done on Brexit. He would tear up the government’s white paper, and we do not know if he would try to stay in the customs union, she says.
And she says he would accept any deal from the EU, however bad it was.
The bureaucrats in Brussels would assume Christmas had come early if he adopted this approach, she says.
May turns to the economy. She wants a strong economy, but that is not the limit of her ambition, she says. She says she wants an economy that works for everyone.
Punishing businesses with higher taxes is not leadership but an abdication of leadership, she says. She says it would be bad for the economy.
And Labour would raise the tax burden, she says, citing the IFS analysis. She says a Conservative government would keep taxes low.
Turning to security, she says Corbyn is opposed to Trident, has boasted of opposing terror laws and opposes shoot-to-kill (a claim Corbyn sought to refute in his speech last night.)
She says, as the threat from Islamism evolves, we must do more to confront it.
She is now echoing much of what she said in her Number 10 statement yesterday.
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One of the attackers had Irish identity card
Police in Ireland are holding a special security meeting after it emerged that one of the London attackers lived in Ireland for a time, the Irish broadcaster RTE reports.
Gardaí have confirmed that an Irish identity card was found on one of the three attackers shot dead by police in London.
He was not however known to the gardaí here and did not come to their attention in relation to any crime or security issues.
The man is believed to have been of Moroccan origin and officers at the Garda National Immigration Bureau are checking records to establish his residency and marital status while he was living here.
It is believed the Moroccan man was married to a woman from Scotland and lived in Dublin while in Ireland.
Gardaí are working closely with the British security and intelligence agencies in relation to their investigation.
Theresa May's speech
Theresa May is delivering a speech now.
She says that our democratic way of life must go on after the London Bridge terror attacks, and so she will return to the theme of the choice facing voters.
She says it is a question of leadership. Leadership is about being straight with people and being able to get the job done. She says she offers strong and stable leadership.
And everything we want as a country depends on getting the Brexit negotiations right, she says.
Theresa May: "Our way of life and democratic process must go on"
— Christopher Hope 📝 (@christopherhope) June 5, 2017
GE2017 pic.twitter.com/CfjIEo1GeU
May dismisses claims police are underfunded
Cressida Dick, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, has given at least two interviews this morning. Asked about police cuts, she said that “any police leader would always want more resources” but that, ahead of the election, she did not want to get into a political argument about this.
In the clip recorded for broadcasters, the reporter mentioned Dick’s comments and then asked Theresa May if she regretted presiding over cuts that saw police numbers fall by 20,000. May replied:
The commissioner of the Metropolitan police has said that the Met is well resourced, and they are, and that they have very powerful counter-terrorism capabilities, and they do. We have protected counter-terrorism policing budgets. We have also provided funding for an increase in the number of armed police officers. Since 2015 we have protected overall police budgets, and that’s despite the fact that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party in the House of Commons suggested that police budgets could be cut.
But it’s also about the powers that we give to the police. We have given increased powers to the police to be able to deal with terrorists, powers which Jeremy Corbyn has boasted he has always opposed.
- May dismissed claims that the police are underfunded. She said that counter-terrorism budgets had been protected, that overall police budgets have been protected since 2015 and that the number of armed officers is increasing.
- She claimed that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn supported police cuts.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party in the House of Commons suggested that police budgets could be cut.
The Tories justify this claim by citing something Andy Burnham, then shadow home secretary, said in a speech 30 September 2015, shortly after Corbyn became Labour leader. Burnham said: “Of course, savings can be found. The police say 5% to 10% over the parliament is just about do-able.” But now the Labour party is going into the election with a manifesto proposing hiring 10,000 more police officers.
- She claimed Corbyn had always opposed anti-terror legislation.
We have given increased powers to the police to be able to deal with terrorists, powers which Jeremy Corbyn has boasted he has always opposed.
This is a reference to Corbyn saying in 2011: “I’ve been involved in opposing anti-terror legislation ever since I first went into parliament in 1983.”
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Hospitals have increased security measures in the aftermath of the terror attack.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust – which runs Guy’s hospital, situated in London Bridge and nearby St Thomas’ hospital – said it was operating “with enhanced security”.
Our services are running as usual today but we have enhanced security. Please bring appointment letters and ID, if possible. pic.twitter.com/oHvD0kRu5v
— Guy's and St Thomas' (@GSTTnhs) June 5, 2017
Patients attending appointments at Guy’s or St Thomas’ hospitals were also reminded to bring photo identification with them to appointments.
In a statement on its website, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust said: “We are operating with enhanced security, but services are running as normal. Please attend appointments as planned, but bring your appointment letter and photo ID. Allow more time to travel.”
The NHS trust was one of five across the capital which treated victims of the attack. Nine patients were taken to the emergency department of St Thomas’ hospital – which is situated on the south side of Westminster Bridge, where another terror attack took place in March.
Meanwhile, Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust urged patients and visitors to be vigilant.
In a statement on its website, the trust said: “Following the incidents at London Bridge and Borough Market, our own security team will be stepping up their presence on our campuses.
“Although there is no reason to suspect any specific threat to our institution or other universities, due to the nature of our openness and accessibility we would urge everyone to remain vigilant and to immediately report anything suspicious to security.”
One victim was taken to St Mary’s hospital in Paddington, which is run by Imperial.
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May defends her record over police funding
Theresa May has recorded a clip for broadcasters which has just been shown on Sky and BBC News.
She says the police have identified all the attackers. She says 11 people are in custody.
The threat level remains at severe, she says.
The police are working to establish the identity of all of those killed, she says.
The victims were from different countries. This was an attack not just on London and the UK, but on the free world, she says.
She says the heroism of the police and the emergency services was extraordinary.
Q: Cressida Dick, the Met police commissioner, has said it would be appropriate to look at police resources. Do you regret cutting police numbers?
May says Dick has said she has the resources she needs.
She says the government has protected police spending since 2015.
Labour opposed extra spending on the police, she says.
And she says Jeremy Corbyn has opposed giving new powers to the police.
- May defends her record over police funding.
We’ll post the full quotes shortly.
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Man led away in Dagenham
A man emerged from the yellow house raided by police in Dagenham under a blanket a short while ago pic.twitter.com/MmsStLzl9b
— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) June 5, 2017
A man emerged under a blanket from a Dagenham house raided by police in connection with the London terror attack at about 10.15am. He was holding a blanket to his head with one hand over his face and the other at this waist.
It was a confused situation 12 hours after police first arrived on the scene. The shabby yellow painted house used to be a swingers’ and cross-dressers’ club, locals have confirmed.
“You’d see cross-dressers and all sorts down there,” said Dean Sandford, operations manager at the garage next door. The club was called The Little Yellow House. “It closed down about a year ago and we never saw anyone going in or out since,” he added. “We thought it was just disused.”
The semi-detached house stands beside a tyre shop alone in a busy industrial estate.
The police first turned up at 10pm last night but burst into the property shortly after 5am on Monday, another business owner, who did not want to be named, said. Inside the door, there appeared to be a presence of residents with a Henry Hoover near the staircase and four or five jackets hanging on a wall rack.
The police declined to comment on the ongoing operation.
Heavy police presence at Dagenham. Ongoing search at shabby house right next to A13 pic.twitter.com/2VUpBpMdNf
— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) June 5, 2017
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One of the two addresses raided by police on Monday is on Caledon Road in Newham, according to PA.
A police van is parked in the middle of the road and the street of terraced houses is cordoned off at both ends.
A woman called Sonia said police raided the house next to the one she lives in at 4am.
She said she was woken up with noise and could hear shouts of: “On the floor, on the floor, on the floor.” coming from the property next door.
“And after, people screaming scared, and boom boom boom,” she said, adding that she could hear an explosion and four or five gunshots. The noise was so loud and she and her housemates thought it was taking place in their house.
“We were very scared,” she said, adding that glass was smashed at the front of her house. She said she believed the people who live in the house were Muslim, adding that it was a family with two sons.
The whole family was taken away by police after about an hour, she said. Men in blue forensic suits could be seen walking along the street from the house.
Vijy Temcykumar also lives on the street and said she heard a “blast” followed by a “shooting sound”, adding that she heard three or four shots. “My son was crying a lot,” she said.
Mohamed Ozhuparambil lives on the street and said he thought a Bangladeshi family lived at the house raided by police.
He said three men, including a man over 65, and three women, including a teenager, were taken away in a police van. He said he heard a “bomb blasting” sound.
Another resident on the street, Ahmed Jableo, said he heard a “massive bang like a big bomb blast shooting noise”.
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Questions have been asked about how much police and the intelligence services knew about the three men who carried out the attack.
- One of the suspects was reported to the police two years ago over extremist views.
- The same suspect is reported to have watched YouTube clips of the hate preacher Ahmad Musa Jibril.
- He is also reported to have appeared in a Channel 4 documentary about British jihadis.
- He was caught on camera being involved in an altercation with police after an Isis flag was unfurled in London’s Regent’s Park, according to the Daily Mail.
- One of the suspects may have been questioned by police according to notes seen being carried by a detective leaving a flat raided on Sunday.
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The BBC Question Time special with the Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, and Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish National party leader, is being filmed and broadcast tonight on BBC1 at 9pm after the BBC postponed the scheduled event yesterday evening after the London Bridge terror attack.
Farron and Sturgeon are on the campaign trail in Scotland today and their Question Time contest highlights several battles between the two parties. The Lib Dems are pitching to win back a handful of former Lib Dem seats in East Dunbartonshire, Edinburgh West, North East Fife and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross won by the SNP in 2015.
Farron’s battlebus tour started at 6am in a cafe in the Lib Dem target seat of Edinburgh West, which his party is widely expected to regain, before heading to support Jo Swinson’s effort to win back East Dunbartonshire in the well-healed neighbourhood of Bearsden.
About an hour later, Sturgeon will fly into East Dunbartonshire on the latest leg of her helicopter tour on her so-called Nicolopter, before taking in other battleground seats in the Borders and central Scotland.
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This morning Karen Bradley, the culture secretary and a former Home Office minister, refused to answer when asked on ITV’s Good Morning Britain if the number of armed police had gone down since 2010. (See 7.43am.) It’s not hard to guess why. The Times’ Matt Chorley has the figures.
If only someone had given Karen Bradley this chart, she could have answered the question on whether the number of armed police has been cut pic.twitter.com/qP6Sy4aUbs
— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) June 5, 2017
In his speech (covered here and here) last night Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, criticised the government for cutting police numbers. He said:
You cannot protect the public on the cheap the police and security services must get the resources they need not 20,000 police cuts.
Theresa May was warned by the Police Federation but she accused them of “crying wolf”.
As Labour set out in our manifesto we will recruit another 10,000 new police officers including more armed police who need to be properly rewarded as well as 1,000 more security services staff to support our communities and help keep us safe.
And this morning Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, has also criticised the Tories for cutting police numbers. He said:
Theresa May must level with the British people and accept that on her watch armed officer numbers were cut. She asks us to trust her on security but the truth is as home secretary she cut armed officers and cut community police numbers.
The Liberal Democrats would provide our police with £300m extra funding a year and would do what is needed to tackle the scourge of violent extremism.
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In the area around London Bridge there are as yet few flowers laid for victims of Saturday night’s attacks.
Dave Austin, from Epping, was looking for the right place to leave a bunch.
Asked why, he said: “I, like everybody else, was overwhelmed. I saw it on the telly ... I can’t help but be moved.
“London’s got a really subdued feeling this morning, and it’s not supposed to feel like that.”
Austin said he would leave his flowers “anywhere where I feel suitable. I’m not sure at the moment because so much is cordoned off.”
London Bridge station is now fully operational with a heavy police presence.
"#London's got a subdued feel this morning." Dave Austin, from Epping, with flowers for the #LondonBridgeAttack victims pic.twitter.com/vE0Ck3qTQd
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) June 5, 2017
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Southwark cathedral and Borough Market remain closed as a police cordon remains in place in several streets to the south-west of London Bridge.
The Cathedral remains closed due to ongoing @metpoliceuk investigation. We will be posting updates when we receive them #LondonBridge
— SouthwarkCath Events (@Southwarkcathed) June 5, 2017
The Market remains closed today
— Borough Market (@boroughmarket) June 5, 2017
8.15am update - this is the current extent of the police cordon at #londonbridge. pic.twitter.com/rLgyDza5Hu
— London SE1 (@se1) June 5, 2017
Guardian/ICM poll suggests Conservatives have 11-point lead over Labour
The latest Guardian/ICM poll is out this morning. And it suggests that the Conservative lead remains in double digits. Here are the figures.
Conservatives: 45% (no change from Guardian/ICM last week)
Labour: 34% (up 1)
Lib Dems: 8% (no change)
Ukip: 5% (no change)
Green: 3% (no change)
Conservative lead: 11 points (down 1)
And here is a commentary on the figures from Martin Boon, ICM’s director.
Compared to other polls over the weekend, ours slots in the higher end of the Tory lead range, one point off ComRes’s 12-pointer. At the other end, Survation revealed a Tory lead of only one point. A moderately significant dividing line has emerged between sets of pollsters, largely pivoting on how we treat turnout. This has been widely discussed in polling circles since the Labour ‘surge’, which is at least partially based on younger people and 2015 non-voters saying they will now turn out, and vote for Labour.
Those pollsters, like us, who show higher Tory leads are implicitly sceptical about the extent of this self-reported turnout. Those with lower Labour leads largely take it at face value. But whichever turnout weighting scheme is applied, the impact is clear: as Sturgis & Jennings of the University of Southampton established in this paper, which was published yesterday.
The imposition of historical-based turnout probabilities (assuming that behaviours will tend toward the historical pattern) drives down the Labour and upweights the Tories. Self-reported turnout scales, largely employed by those pollsters showing the smallest Labour leads, hardly impact on the headline numbers. June 9th will show which was the better scheme, but here’s the age profile of voters from all general elections since 1964, courtesy of the House of Commons Library.
For my part, it’s hard to reconcile between 38%-54% estimated turnout among 18-24s since 1997 with one recent poll, which suggested that 82% of them would turn out to vote. But who knows? Jeremy Corbyn has, to common agreement, run a good campaign and has motivated sections of the society who have tended to disengagement. On Friday, we will have the answer on whether he has bucked the trend, or not.
ICM Unlimited interviewed a representative sample of 2,000 adults aged 18+ online on 2 to 4 June. Interviews were conducted across the country and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. ICM is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.
UPDATE: Here are the tables (pdf).
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Police cordons around London Bridge railway station were lifted earlier than planned on Monday, PA reports.
The station – which is the fourth busiest in the UK – was initially expected to be exit-only when it reopened at 5am.
This led to warnings of disruption for passengers heading to Kent and Surrey on Southeastern, Southern and Thameslink services.
But a spokeswoman for Network Rail, which manages the mainline station, said police cordons were lifted “earlier than expected”, meaning it was able to “open as usual”.
All entrances and exits to London Bridge underground station reopened with the exception of Borough High Street, Transport for London said.
London Bridge itself and other nearby roads also reopened on Monday morning.
British Transport police said travellers may notice an increased police presence following the attack.
In a statement, the force said: “Members of the public should expect to see extra police officers patrolling stations in London and the south-east following the attacks. You may also see some of our armed police officers at stations.”
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Islamic State (Isis) has claimed responsibility for Saturday night’s attack via Amaq, its main communications channel, but evidence linking the group to the atrocity is sketchy.
A mistake on the date meant the claim had to be retracted and re-issued, and details were thin. The group simply said that a “detachment of fighters” from the group were responsible for the violence in London.
For a long time, Isis claims were seen as reliable by experts. The group tended to claim a link to an attack only where one existed. Some of these were tenuous, or, as in two cases in the US, only established when an attacker swore allegiance to Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi immediately before or even during an attack.
But the connections existed all the same, even if sometimes they only underlined the inspirational power of its ideology rather than its ability to execute complex operations.
The group also often provided detail in the claims. This included personal information about attackers or operational elements which often indicated a deep knowledge of the plot or the individuals concerned.
In the past Isis also sometimes provided pre-recorded videos or statements from attackers. In some cases, interviews with attackers were published in Isis magazines, or online, billed as an “exclusive”. These came weeks after an attack but could be considered conclusive evidence underpinning the group’s involvement.
Those days have passed. More recently, Isis has started claiming as its own attacks where there is no evidence of a connection. And it has stopped providing evidence to back up the claims and has made mistakes in its statements.
Isis claimed Khalid Massood, who attacked parliament and pedestrians on Westminster bridge in March, as one of their fighters. However, no evidence has yet emerged of a link. The group also claimed Salman Abedi, who attacked in Manchester last month, too. Investigators are probing Abedi’s connections in Libya where he may have been in contact with Isis militants, but have no solid proof yet of Isis direction or training.
Just days ago Isis claimed the bloody attack on a casino in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The lone gunman there turned out to be an unstable gambling addict with a grudge.
Why is this? Isis is under huge military pressure. Its leaders are moving all the time, with little time to organise a coherent communications strategy. Many key people involved with the group’s twisted public relations effort are now dead.
Simultaneously, the group’s losses of territory, personnel and resources mean that it is even more important than ever to project an image of a powerful organisation with global reach, even if the reality is that its refounded caliphate is crumbling fast.
#ISIS-linked Amaq Media has issued a very brief claim of responsibility for yesterday's attack in #London - take link w. some salt for now. pic.twitter.com/gY3BMAKoVx
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) June 4, 2017
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Four police officers injured
Four police officers were injured in Saturday night’s attack, including two on-duty Metropolitan officers, Scotland Yard has announced.
One of those injured was a British Transport officer, who was stabbed in the head as he he tried to foil the attack. Another was a an off-duty Met officer, who remains in hospital in a serious condition.
The further two Met officers were hurt while on duty. One a plain-clothes officer who received stitches to a head injury and a uniformed officer received an injury to his arm.
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New barriers have been put up on Westminster Bridge to separate pedestrians from vehicles.
Theresa May’s “enough is enough” response to the attack risks making the extremist threat worse, according Richard Barrett a former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6.
Writing for the Guardian he says:
The prime minister must be careful in equating terrorism with Islamist extremism. Whatever comment she added about the true values of Islam, this juxtaposition of terms is too simple a description for such a complex phenomenon: May’s use of words plays to the binary division that terrorists try to create between Muslims and the rest. In talking to officials in Muslim-majority countries about common approaches to terrorism, or to individual Muslims about defeating the terrorist narrative, I have almost always found criticism of the way the west approaches the problem in two areas.
First, officials complain that western governments tolerate extremist speech directed against these Muslim-majority countries because it does not contravene the law and falls under freedom of expression. This may be true, but it is totally defensible. The protection of individual freedoms, and the rule of law, are fundamental to a healthy and united society.
Second, they complain that western counter-terrorist policies in conflict zones are often counterproductive, especially when bombs and drones kill civilians. This is also true, but is far less defensible. Military action is not an appropriate response to the terror threat unless it forms part of a far wider strategy that takes into account the various drivers of extremism. The strategic counter-terrorist objectives of our military involvement in Syria are as obscure as they were in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Spanish authorities said on Monday that they were still trying to find Ignacio Echeverría, a 39-year-old Spaniard who has not been seen since the attack on Saturday night.
Echeverría, who lives in London, had apparently been skateboarding in a park with friends when he stopped to help a woman who had been injured in the atrocity. His family have put out an appeal on Facebook, but is still awaiting news.
“The embassy and the consulate are in permanent contact with the family and with the British authorities and are giving them all the help they can,” a spokesman for Spain’s foreign ministry told the Guardian.
“But there is still no news for the moment.”
Spain’s interior minister, Juan Ignacio Zoido, told the Cadena Ser radio station that Echeverría “could be among” those who were injured in the attack and who were still being treated in hospital.
Some reports suggested he may have been wounded after using his skateboard to try to defend the woman he was trying to help. Echeverría was wearing blue jeans, a dark top and Vans trainers and has a small scar over one eyebrow. His family think he may not have had ID on him as he had been skateboarding.
Echeverría’s brother Joaquín, who is using Facebook to appeal for information, said the family had been asked for his fingerprints, adding: “That’s not a good sign.”
Echeverría is from the municipality of Las Rozas in Madrid and works for HSBC in London.
The Spanish interior minister, Juan Ignacio Zoido, said another Spaniard had been injured in the attacks but was recovering well from wounds to his chest, wrist and leg, adding: “He wants to get better as soon as possible as he’s got an exam to take.”
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The Greek embassy has confirmed that a London-based Greek citizen was also among those injured in the attack saying the young man has been operated on after being knifed in the kidney.
“He sustained head injuries and was stabbed in the kidney but has been operated on and is in stable condition, out of danger,” Alexis Georgiadis, a spokesman at the Greek embassy, told the Guardian. “I have just spoken with his father and our ambassador will be visiting him today.”
The wounded man had moved to London, like so many of his compatriots, at the height of Greece’s economic crisis in 2011.
At least two videos shot in the chaotic aftermath of Saturday’s attack have featured a man in a pub describing over the phone in Greek how he is bleeding after being stabbed. One of the videos, aired by the Sun, alerted authorities that a Greek was among those injured.
Police vans were parked outside a car repair shop on the Ripple Road section of the A13 in Dagenham in east London.
James Bateman, who lives at the other side of the road, told PA: “At about 4am, after the large bang, I looked outside the window after being woken up and I saw about a dozen armed police officers going to and from an unmarked van.”
He said they were wearing “full gear”, adding: “The first bang was nothing like I’d heard before.”
Bateman said the bangs that followed were not as loud but sounded “the equivalent” of gunshots.
He said he thought it was more like a business address than a property where people lived. Officers were standing guard in front of the property.
Police still on guard outside Dagenham property raided as part of London Bridge attack investigation. Detailed search underway inside pic.twitter.com/dPFv1GD8BH
— Mark White (@skymarkwhite) June 5, 2017
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Steve Hilton, who was director of strategy in Number 10 from 2010 until 2012 and who was a close friend of David Cameron’s until they fell out over the EU referendum (Hilton backed leave), has said Theresa May should resign because she was home secretary when the terror threat escalated.
i am so sick of Theresa May blaming others for terror when the system she presided over has obviously failed so lamentably @NextRevFNC pic.twitter.com/ALo2idz9ym
— steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) June 5, 2017
Theresa May responsible for security failures of London Bridge, Manchester, Westminster Bridge. Should be resigning not seeking re-election pic.twitter.com/2o0odey2BQ
— steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) June 5, 2017
Theresa May blame-shifting again. her spin doctors attack MI5, but she was in charge of them for years... pic.twitter.com/nlmOmuqfO8
— steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) June 5, 2017
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A London Bridge businessman, who asked not to be named, said police had allowed him inside the cordon to check on his offices.
He described the scene as like “life had ceased.”
“No one’s touched a thing – just ready for forensics, it just feels. There’s medical equipment on the floor and stuff like that.
“We work next door to the restaurant where a lot of the people were treated, just on Thrale Street.”
His colleague interjected, describing how medical kits were littered across the street, chairs had been scattered throughout the area and half drunk drinks abandoned. The businessman said he and his colleagues were regulars at the Wheatsheaf pub, where the attackers with knives set about patrons.
“We’re there two or three nights a week, and we’re there every single day – but don’t tell our wives that.”
It is striking how few overtly armed police there are around the Borough Market cordon this morning. The only two I’ve seen so far have stationed just behind the cordon across Borough High Street, where the world’s media are assembled.
I asked a constable why officers were stationed there, where there seemed little need for them. “You’ll have to find someone paid considerably more than me to tell you,” he said.
He would not comment on a suggestion that they were there for the benefit of cameras, but smiled.
Literally the only armed police I've seen around #londonbridge. They appear to be posing for the cameras pic.twitter.com/VYJOKpvPBT
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) June 5, 2017
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Karen Bradley, the culture secretary, appeared to accept that the numbers of armed officers had fallen amid more general cutbacks to the police amid austerity after 2010.
“We’ve seen reductions in police officers across the board, we had to take difficult decisions in 2010 when we came into office when as you remember, there was no money,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “All parties at that time agreed there needed to be cuts.”
She added: “It’s not just about numbers, it’s about powers, it’s about making sure the police have the powers they need.”
Asked about reports that a report into the foreign funding of UK Islamist groups might not be published, in part because it focuses on Saudi Arabia, Bradley said the report was not completed and no decisions had been made.
“The important point is we work with our partners and allies, and we save far more lives by working together,” she said.
“We have, through all our diplomatic relations, honest conversations with our friends. But we need to work with our friends and with our allies to make sure we share intelligence.”
She added: “To suggest we’re not taking terrorist financing seriously is simply ridiculous.”
Bradley had nothing concrete to add to May’s suggestion that more would be done to combat extremism on the internet, saying: “We’ve been clear for some that there cannot be safe spaces for people to operate on the internet and promote radicalisation.”
Quizzed about whether this meant demanding a halt to end-to-end web encryption, Bradley said only that authorities would seek “access to information as required”.
She said: “That’s why we want to work with the internet companies, we want to work with those companies and individuals who develop the apps, develop the technology, so that they can help us to find the radicalisation.”
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Cressida Dick also said that there was “an international dimension” to the changing terrorist threat facing the UK, but the majority of recent attacks and plots have been domestic in focus.
She told Today:
At the moment we seem to be facing a threat that is posed by people [with] largely a domestic focus although there are some international dimensions. We are dealing with people who appear very volatile, very unstable many of them. People who are prepared to use low-tech methods and sometimes go from thinking about the idea to carrying out an attack in a very short space of time. So this is very, very challenging.
Asked about the foreign dimension, Dick added:
“All the recent attacks I think have primarily a domestic centre of gravity. In the five that we have foiled and these three recent attacks, in some of them, there are undoubtedly international dimensions. We will always be looking to see if anything has been directed from overseas but, I would say, the majority of the threat that we are facing at the moment does not appear to be directed from overseas.
Dick added that some of the attacks and plots appeared to be copycat in nature.
We are looking at thousands of subjects of interest.
The rhetoric coming from Daesh [Islamic State] and other organisations has been to encourage people to take action into their own hands to use low-tech methods and undoubtedly when people see something which appears from their perverted point of view to be successful, some people will be inspired by that. So that is a possibility.
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The Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, has called for more police resources in the wake of three terrorist attacks in 10 weeks.
Speaking to Sky News she said there “does appear to be a changing threat”.
Asked about whether the police needed more funding she said: “Any police leader would always want more resources. I think we should reflect on how successful the police and the agencies have been in the last few years. Since 2013 we have foiled 18 plots which we know were designed to cause mayhem, murder, destruction, we’ve been arresting about one person a day for terrorist offences.”
Dick pointed out that police had foiled five plots since the Westminster attack. She added: “So yes of course I think it is appropriate for us all to look at the amount of the resource that the police have, both the counter [terrorism] police, but also our neighbourhood officers. The majority who responded on Saturday night aren’t counter-terrorist police.”
Dick said her sadness at the attack was mingled with “great pride” at the “fantastic” response of the police to the London Bridge attack both in uniform and not.
Speaking later on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme Dick refused to state whether the three attackers were known to the police.
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A large police cordon remains in place around Borough Market and London Bridge, but the bridge itself is now open to traffic and pedestrians.
Transport for London (TfL) had said it hoped to run a full service from London Bridge less than 48 hours after three men crashed a car into pedestrians and went on a knife rampage through the market nearby.
However, the Borough High Street entrance to London Bridge tube station was closed and no one was boarding at the station.
#LondonBridge is exit only "until we are advised otherwise," @TfL staff say pic.twitter.com/0U6zqJxi6d
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) June 5, 2017
At the station’s Tooley Street entrance, a cluster of senior TfL staff directed commuters. “Today it’s going to be exit only until we’re advised otherwise,” said Chris Steer, a TfL area manager.
Steer confirmed that the Borough High Street entrance was closed. A police cordon surrounds it. “We are acting on Met police advice, as soon as they advice us on clearing the road, we will open up,” he said.
Dozens of police stood guard at slipways used by buses leading up to the gleaming new London Bridge train station, opposite which alleys lead directly to Borough High Street, facing the market.
One Pret a Manger manager said she didn’t know if she would be able to reach the shop, which was further down the street towards Borough tube. And she didn’t know whether it would be worth it if she could get there.
“If the road is closed then there are no customers, and I may as well go home,” she said.
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The culture secretary, Karen Bradley, has repeatedly refused to state whether Britain has fewer armed police officers in the wake of police cuts since 2010 when Theresa May became home secretary.
In an angry exchange with ITV’s Piers Morgan, Bradley said: “It is not just about numbers, it is about powers, and Theresa May has never shied away from giving powers to the police.”
Bradley also repeatedly declined to answer questions about the number of mosques in Britain, saying she did not want to take part in a “pub quiz”.
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I’m now handing the live blog to my colleague Matthew Weaver.
With days to go before voters head to the polls for Thursday’s general election, parties will continue campaigning today. This is in contrast to the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack, when campaigning was suspended for three days by the major parties.
Campaigning is likely to be dominated by the issue of security, with Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron both challenging Theresa May over policing cuts and the UK government’s relations with Saudi Arabia.
Here is today’s political diary:
- We can expect a meeting of the government’s emergency Cobra meeting this morning, with a Theresa May statement to follow. The PM then resumes campaigning.
- Jeremy Corbyn is visiting north-east England, culminating in a rally in Gateshead this evening.
- Tim Farron and Nicola Sturgeon are in Edinburgh ahead of tonight’s delayed Question Time, hosted by Nick Robinson, on BBC1 at 9pm.
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Writing in the Times today, Sajid Javid, the communities secretary, says he agrees with Theresa May that British Muslims need to do more to tackle extremism:
Speaking as a Muslim myself, we need to ask ourselves searching questions … There’s no avoiding the fact that these people think they are Muslims. They identify as Muslims. And they carry out their attacks – ignorantly, offensively – in the name of Islam. That’s why, although we all share the responsibility for tackling terrorism, there’s a special, unique burden on the Muslim community …
We need them to set off on the path to peace rather than the road to war. We need to offer not just a counternarrative, which rebuts the extremists, but a positive and self-confident narrative that promotes pluralistic, British values – and their compatibility with an Islamic life. And that message can best come from within the Muslim community.
All of today’s national newspapers in the UK lead with the London attacks, with many using the photograph of the three terror suspects on the ground, after they were shot dead by armed police.
Many also echo the words of Theresa May, who declared in the wake of the attack: “Enough is enough.”
Here is Monday’s Guardian front page:
Guardian front page, Monday 5 June 2017 – Seven dead, 21 critically hurt: May says ‘enough is enough’ pic.twitter.com/Id4uihWokg
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 4, 2017
And here is our roundup of Monday’s other front pages:
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One of the seven victims killed in Saturday night’s attack has been named as Christine Archibald, who was from Canada. Her family has issued a statement asking people to “honour her by making your community a better place”:
We grieve the loss of our beautiful, loving daughter and sister. She had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and respected.
She lived this belief, working in a shelter for the homeless until she moved to Europe to be with her fiancé. She would have had no understanding of the callous cruelty that caused her death.
Please honour her by making your community a better place. Volunteer your time and labour or donate to a homeless shelter. Tell them Chrissy sent you.
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Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron have both challenged Theresa May over a long-delayed inquiry into foreign funding and support of jihadi groups in the UK, after the Home Office suggested the investigation may not be published.
The inquiry into revenue streams for extremist groups operating in the UK was commissioned by former prime minister David Cameron and is thought to focus on Saudi Arabia.
But the Guardian revealed last week the report was still incomplete and its contents may not be published.
The Labour leader used a speech in Carlisle on Sunday evening to challenge the prime minister over the delayed report: “We do need to have some difficult conversations, starting with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states that have funded and fuelled extremist ideology.
“It is no good Theresa May suppressing a report into the foreign funding of extremist groups. We have to get serious about cutting off the funding to these terror networks, including Isis here and in the Middle East.”
Writing for the Guardian on Monday, the Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, said it was essential the report was not suppressed: “Theresa May now has a choice. Does she publish that report or keep it hidden?”
The Conservatives were criticised last year for selling arms worth billions of pounds to the Saudis.
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The three terror suspects shot dead by armed officers in Borough Market have not been named. Police believe they know their identities, but say they will not release the names while operations are continuing.
Fresh raids are taking place this morning in two locations in east London: Newham and Barking.
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Tell MAMA, which monitors hate crimes, has told the Guardian that there has been a “measurable” rise in the number of hate incidents reported since the London attack. A spokesperson said: “We are going to be all hands on deck tomorrow managing what is coming in.”
It said it was fielding reports from its Twitter account on Sunday, including one person who claimed to have seen graffiti outside a mosque. Tell MAMA also posted on its website about a video circulating showing a man with what seems to be a hand grenade with a machete blade: “Colleagues in Tell MAMA can confirm that Merseyside police are aware of this video. We have spoken to the force in question and we wanted to reassure community members that the matter is with the relevant force and being reviewed.”
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What we know so far: political reaction
- Campaigning for Thursday’s general election was briefly suspended but politicians are expected to return to the stump today.
- The prime minister, Theresa May, emerged from a meeting of the government’s emergency Cobra committee to announce: “Enough is enough.”
While we have made significant progress in recent years, there is – to be frank – far too much tolerance of extremism in our country.
- May said there could be increased prison terms for even minor terrorism offences, and said internet companies must do more to drive out extremism.
- But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pointed to policing cuts, saying in a speech on Sunday evening that a government “cannot protect the public on the cheap”.
- Corbyn said that if elected he would back “full authority for the police to use whatever force is necessary to protect and save life”.
- Both Corbyn and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron called on May to publish a report commissioned by David Cameron into the funding of jihadi groups, which is believed to be critical of Saudi Arabia.
- Read more.
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What we know so far: the victims
- Seven people were killed, and 48 injured people were taken to hospital.
- On Sunday night, 36 people remained in hospital. Of these, 21 are in a critical condition.
- Only one of those killed has so far been named: a Canadian woman, Christine Archibald, from Castlegar, British Columbia.
- The French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, confirmed that a French man was among those killed, but he has not been named. Seven other French citizens were reported to have been injured, four of them critically.
- Two Australians – Candice Hedge, from Brisbane, and Andrew Morrison, from Darwin – were wounded, and the Canberra government says there are two more “about whom we have very real concerns”.
- An off-duty Metropolitan police officer and a British Transport police officer who confronted the terrorists with a baton were injured.
- A British man was shot in the head by a stray police bullet but was not severely injured and is expected to make a full recovery.
- New Zealander Oliver Dowling was stabbed in the face, neck and stomach. His partner Marie Bondeville was also injured.
- Geoff Ho, a Sunday Express journalist, was in intensive care after being stabbed in the throat.
- Read more.
There is more on the raids this morning. The Press Association reports:
Residents reported hearing “loud flash bangs and gunshots” in the early hours of Monday morning. BatemanLDN said on Twitter: “It woke me up along with the whole street. Extremely loud bangs followed by gunshot bangs. All ok – very shaken residents nearby though. All quietened down now.”
Simon Tucker wrote: “Heard this in the Dagenham area at around 4:15 am. Started with loud explosion sound. Followed by about 20 shots, some sounded distant.”
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National Rail says London Bridge rail station is open as normal, for passengers entering and exiting the station.
It says, following advice from the Metropolitan police:
Police cordons around the station were lifted earlier than expected, meaning the national rail station will be open as usual. London Bridge itself – across the Thames – and nearby roads have reopened as well.
London Bridge underground station is also open, but with restricted entry and exit via Tooley Street. Travellers are advised that the station is likely to be congested.
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Sky News reports that this is one of the properties being searched this morning:
BREAKING - Two more raids in east London this morning in connection with London Bridge attack. This property in Dagenham being searched pic.twitter.com/I4Y0JKyDCd
— Mark White (@skymarkwhite) June 5, 2017
We have some further information on this morning’s raids from the Metropolitan police. It said officers entered properties in Newham and Barking at 4.15am on Monday and “a number” of people have been detained.
Searches were continuing at both addresses, police added.
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Further arrests made
Police are searching two addresses in east London in connection with the London Bridge terror attack, and a number of people have been detained, Scotland Yard has said.
There are no further details at this stage.
What we know so far: the investigation
- Fresh police raids have been reported in Newham, east London, early on Monday morning.
- Four addresses were raided in east London on Sunday, including the home of one of the suspected attackers.
- Twelve people were arrested at the two of those addresses. There were no arrests at the other two properties.
- Of the 12, seven are women, aged between 19 and 60.
- Five men, aged between 28 and 55, were also detained, but one – a 55-year-old man – has already been released without charge.
- Eleven remain in custody. All are detained on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act, which means they can be held for up to two weeks before a decision must be made whether to charge or release them.
- Read more.
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What we know so far: the attackers
- Isis has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack, although this has not been verified. In a statement published late on Sunday by the Amaq news agency, which usually carries its claims, it said:
A detachment of Islamic State fighters executed yesterday’s London attack.
- Metropolitan police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said detectives were urgently investigating whether the three terror suspects were “assisted or supported” by a wider network.
- The names of the three men have not been released. Police say they believe all the attackers were killed after armed officers “fired an unprecedented number of rounds” to shoot them dead during their attack on Borough Market.
- One of the suspected attackers was described by neighbours as a married father of two who attended local mosques.
- One neighbour told the Guardian she had reported the man to police two years ago after fears he was attempting to radicalise children.
- Read more.
