London, our other headlines three french students were among the injured in the attack. The french Prime Minister has promised his full support for the victims. And the british Prime Minister theresa may came out into Downing Street to make a statement shortly after holding a government emergency meeting. I have just chaired a meeting of the governments emergency committee, cobra, following the sick and depraved Terrorist Attack on the streets of our capital, this afternoon. Welcome from westminster, where it has been a horrifying and bloody day. Four people are dead at the end of it. Including it seems the assailant. And a Police Officer who was stabbed at the gates of the Palace Of Westminster. Before that, a vehicle driven across Westminster Bridge careered into a number of people on the bridge and injured at least 20 of them. It killed two. 20 people injured and a number of them still in hospital tonight, at Saint Thomases in kings college. The Prime Minister has been sharing a mee
Private security is being deployed to protect MPs amid warnings that the Israel-Hamas conflict is a “generational radicalising moment”, The Telegraph can reveal.
Mike Freer will stand down as MP for Finchley and Golders Green at the next election. He says the strain on his husband and wider family is too great. For years, he has had social-media abuse, death threats, hostile graffiti, mock-Molotov cocktails left as his door, an attempt to prise open the windows of his constituency office and a rude note stuck to the windscreen of his car – some of which proved that hostile people knew his whereabouts.
It was the perfect embodiment of the dangerous rise of Britain’s “identitarian state”. A British GP, working in the north-west London borough of Harrow, while also sitting on the executive committee of Hizb ut-Tahrir – the Islamist group which has now been proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK.