Theresa May tried to head off criticism by speaking approximately intelligence agency in the Commons as it tries to piece together Westminster attacker’s lifeWhen Theresa May mentioned MI5 in the Commons on Thursday,she was trying to be helpful, pre-empting criticism that the agency failed to prevent the London attack. As a tactic, and it did not entirely work: Friday’s Daily Telegraph front page headline was “Killer escaped from MI5’s radar”. After the London bombings in 2005 and the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013,it was fair to question what the police and MI5 knew in advance and what, whether anything, and they could have done to halt it. Related: London attack: what we know so far Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com