levels of security for people like me who report outside downing street to go there. over the years, there has been a significant ramping up of security, and at least after an attack a few years ago at the front gates of parliamentjust down the road from me at whitehall about 50 metres from where we are just now, that attack on someone drove there and made it into the front garden, new palace yard of the palace of westminster, so it s definitely right to say that over the last few years, there has been a significant ramping up of the security presence around parliament, which would mean that the police had thought about the possibility of a situation like this with a car driving towards downing street, as we have seen in those images that we brought you a few minutes ago. nevertheless, i can t remember seeing one get through that first security level before and into those front gates of downing street. downing street. nick, stay there, but for peeple downing street. nick,
downing street, told not to be too much into that, though he was due to leave already. i much into that, though he was due to leave already- leave already. i want to ust put onto the screen leave already. i want to just put onto the screen another- leave already. i want to just put onto the screen another picture| leave already. i want to just put - onto the screen another picture that we have in. it is a still picture, and that you can see, it gives you a first glimpse into what nick has been describing over the last little while. and you can see the nature of the security gate there at the bottom end of downing street. the boot up as part of that operation that we still see is going on. that car that is stopped right there at the beginnings of downing street, and that is a really heavy medal gate. behind outcome of the other layers of security that exists at downing street, and the armed police that stands the other side of that closed gate. that is what protects
cordon. there will be big questions about what happened here this afternoon about why that car crashed into the front gate of downing street about whether it was an accident or whether there was some motivation behind doing it on purpose. all we know at the moment, we have no information at all on that. i ll now at the moment, as we have been saying for the 20 minutes orso have been saying for the 20 minutes or so is the at 20 past four, a car collided, armed officers arrested a man at the scene on suspicion of criminal damages stay with me, because i want to put on the of the arrests. there it is, right in the centre, a man being led and put into one of the vans that you see that right at, so as nick was saying, and
downing street every day. those officers, the security gates and other security measures, but, officers, the security gates and othersecurity measures, but, nick, as we see a different angle, itjust gives people a little of an idea of what you were describing in terms of the levels of security, which, you know, they are considerable there, as you would expect. hick know, they are considerable there, as you would expect. as you would expect. nick eardley, ust lost as you would expect. nick eardley, just lost my - as you would expect. nick eardley, just lost my. apologies, - as you would expect. nick eardley, just lost my. apologies, we - as you would expect. nick eardley, just lost my. apologies, we just. just lost my. apologies, we ust lost nick they fl just lost my. apologies, we ust lost nick they are, i just lost my. apologies, we ust lost nick they are, as i just lost my. apologies, we ust lost nick they are, as you i just lost my. apologies, we ust lost nick they are, as
the moment, that line being confirmed about the prime minister s movements in the last hour or so whilst all of that has been happening. i whilst all of that has been happening- whilst all of that has been hamenin, ., happening. i can confirm that the prime minister happening. i can confirm that the prime minister was happening. i can confirm that the prime minister was in happening. i can confirm that the prime minister was in downing i happening. i can confirm that the - prime minister was in downing street when this incident took place. we should point out that there is still another layer of security. got into the street proper and the actual building itself is quite heavily protected by armed police. at the prime minister was in downing street at the time of this crash. he has left since, presumably out the back door of downing street. although i am told he was scheduled to leave anyway. so the suggestion is that this wasn t an immediate response to what had happened outsid