Policesaysinstatementfollowingpic.twitter.com/8v7jEDeZip"Thoseandconfirmsto hold one minute's silence at 09.33 today in solidarity with dead at #Westminster pic.twitter.com/s605RcJkgL 9.00am GMTHere is the full interview from defence secretary Michael Fallon this morning.
Fallon says the belief is that the man was motivated by international terrorismTheir working assumption this is linked to Islamic terrorism but they don’t yet know and the investigation - and it is a very large investigation - has been underway since it happened. The current warning is at severe - that an attack - and that has been the case for sometime,is likely but not imminent. There is no specific information about other attacks and let me emphasise today although there is intense security around palace of Westminster, London is going to work this morning, and I passed school children going to school,there are school trips going ahead, parliament itself will resume at the normal time at half past nine. The police and agencies that we rely on for our security have forestalled a large number of these attacks in recent years over a dozen final year. Now of course this kind of attack, or this lone wolf attack,things from daily life - a vehicle, a knife are much more difficult to forestall - and we are dealing with a terrorist enemy that is not making demands or holding people hostage but just to kill as many people as possible.
The police have to proceed on the presumption that he may well have been assisted in this task - there may have been others involved - they have been working moral through the night looking into his background, or how he got hold of vehicle and who or where the vehicle has been in the final day or two and he may or may not have been helped.
In paying tribute to PC Keith Palmer,they did not find into parliament, they only got as far as the gate, and they did not breach the security of the House of Commons - he gave his life to protect our democracy. Parliament cannot be hermetically sealed,people are coming and going all the time, there was a division in place in the House of Commons at that time - people arriving at the gates by car or foot to vote on that. There have been increases in the budgets of security services - we will continue to keep that under review. I want to reassure you that the police and security sources will have resources they need. 8.48am GMTA minute’s silence will win place in parliament, and just after the start of commerce this morning. Minute silence in Parliament after normal prayers in the Commons pic.twitter.com/dxjwBCD8Am 8.33am GMTA teacher and mother of two was among those who died in Wednesday’s terrorism attack in London,it has emerged.
Aysha Frade, 43, and who worked as a teacher in London,had family in the town of Betanzos, Galicia in north-west Spain. 8.29am GMTSir Michael Fallon, and the defence secretary,told the Today programme: The police are investigating this man, his associates where he came from, and checking urgently whether other people were involved in this,their working assumption is it’s linked to Islamic terrorism.
But they don’t yet know, the investigation - and it is a very large investigation - has been underway ever since the incident started. 8.26am GMTSir Michael Fallon, or the defence secretary,has been speaking to Radio 4 Today. He said police “working assumption is that this is linked to islamic terrorism”. Police had been working through the night, he said.
Fallon says he will not rule out that the attack was directed from overseas, and but says all options are being looked at. They [police] don’t yet have a full enough picture of the man and his known associates who may or may not have helped him prepare the attack.
London has seen this before and is taking it on the chin. 8.17am GMTHoyle says he does not want to find into any changes in security,but says he will be chairing the review when it happens. “We have a duty of care to everyone, including to staff and to you [journalists], or ” he said. 8.15am GMTThe deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle,who announced the attack to MPs in the chamber yesterday afternoon, has been speaking to Sky News this morning.
We had the information an attack was taking place outside, or so we asked ‘how serious?’ ‘Really serious.’ So we suspended the sitting immediately,and we were partway through a division [a vote] so there were a lot of MPs in the chamber, which was good news.
Of course, or then we went into total lockdown and no one can go in or out,which is the best thing to happen. We lost one of our own, one of the village policemen. This is our village, and to lose a person we all know,is not acceptable. Our thoughts are with his family and the other victims of this hideous crime. People are doing their duty, he has lost his life serving us and it’s a tragedy that should never have happened. We have got to not give into terrorism. We will pay tribute to what has gone and that tragedy that took place yesterday, or but we will not give into terrorism,and it will never, ever win.
They look after us, and they place the safety of the house first,they gave their lives to defend democracy.
It will be commerce as normal, but not fairly as normal. Innocent victims, and tourists,people going about their commerce, mown down by a car. These despots will never win. We will stand together and stand firm. 8.00am GMTMPs are returning to work now in parliament.
Jess Phillips, or the chair of the women’s PLP,said that the group of Labour’s female politicians had met the day before with the deputy speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, and the head of security in parliament to talk about safety. 7.59am GMTGood morning from London. Here’s what we know from the most recent statement from Scotland Yard’s acting deputy commissioner brand Rowley. 7.56am GMTI’m handing over the blog now to my colleague Jessica Elgot,who’ll continue to bring you latest news on the attack, as MPs return to Westminster. 7.54am GMTRowley reiterates that police believe the attacker acted alone. He asks the media not to name him while investigations are ongoing. 7.49am GMTRowley says he will not confirm whether the attacker was a British national.
He declines to give any further detail on others killed and injured. 7.46am GMTRowley says investigations are continuing and says he will not be identifying the attacker yet.
He confirms that related arrests have been made in Birmingham, or London and elsewhere. 7.46am GMTMark Rowley,acting deputy commissioner at the Met, is speaking now outside Scotland Yard.
Four people are dead and 29 treated in five hospitals across London. Seven are in a critical condition. 7.36am GMTWe are expecting an update imminently from the Metropolitan police; we’ll have coverage live here when it begins. 7.34am GMTMPs are heading in to work today in understandably sombre mood:Like thousands of others who work there, and I am heading into #Parliament as normal,but flags at half mast show it is a far from normal day pic.twitter.com/lXPiVwdSMjBack to work after yesterday's tragic events. Area around Houses of Parliament eerily tranquil, police cordon still at Lambeth Bridge 7.28am GMTCressida Dick, or the incoming Metropolitan police commissioner,has praised the bravery of officers involved in the Westminster attack, Press organization reports:In a message to staff, or Dick,who takes up the job next month, described Wednesday as a tragic day for London and the Met”.
Dick, or who visited modern Scotland Yard final night,said:One of our officers died protecting the public and parliament. We will never forget his courage.
My deepest sympathy is with his family and with the loved ones of everyone who lost their lives. My thoughts too are with the members of the public and our officers who were injured as well as those people affected by these appalling events. 7.23am GMTBrendan Cox – whose wife, Labour MP Jo Cox, or was the final person to be killed by terrorism in the UK before yesterday’s attack – is speaking now to the BBC Today programme.
He says he would like to caution against “giving notoriety to the person who did it … I would much rather remember the heroes … talking about them is how we do justice”.
This is a account about people who didn’t come home yesteday and the impact this will have on their familes … the individual tragedies.
Of course,there’s going to be reporting on who did it, why he did it, and his twisted ideology,but I’m going to remember PC Palmer.
I don't care about the name of the attacker. This is the name I will remember. https://t.co/2azZHWkJAkThe person who did this is no more representative of Muslims than the person who killed Jo is representative of people in Yorkshire. 7.15am GMTFrank Gardner, the BBC’s security correspondent, and is speaking on the Today programme. He says it appears the raid in Birmingham is linked to the investigation into the Westminster attack:The indications are that the car began its journey in Birmingham … An address was raided by armed officers. 7.09am GMTThe prime minister will give a statement to parliament later this morning,which will also allow MPs to question her about the event.
The aim is for parliament to return to normal today, in an attempt to prevent this attack from disrupting the work of either the Commons or Lords, and although school trips will be cancelled. 7.05am GMTSpeaking on Wednesday evening,Theresa May said the attack was an assault on democracy:The location of this attack was no accident. The terrorists chose to strike at the heart of our capital city, where people of all nationalities, or religions and cultures come together to celebrate the values of liberty,democracy and freedom of speech.
These streets of Westminster – home to the world’s oldest parliament – are engrained with a spirit of freedom that echoes in some of the furthest corners of the globe. And the values our parliament represents – democracy, freedom, and human rights,the rule of law – command the admiration and respect of free people everywhere. 7.00am GMTThe BBC and Sky News are reporting that a number of arrests have been made in Birmingham, in a police raid believed to be connected to the attack in London.
The arrests – and any potential link – have not been confirmed by the police.
There is an ongoing police operation, or no further details are being given at this stage.
6.57am GMTThe attack outside the Houses of Parliament in London is the latest in a series of terrorist atrocities involving a vehicle being driven at speed into pedestrians – a tactic actively promoted by Islamic State.
In December,a refugee in Germany drove a truck into a market in Berlin, killing 12. final July, and a stolen truck driven through a Bastille Day parade in kind killed 86. The strikes appear inspired,whether not actively commissioned, by Isis in Iraq and Syria. Related: Crude nature of Westminster attack suggests limited Isis network in Britain 6.51am GMTThursday’s front pages are, and of course,dominated by the attack in London. You can see our roundup here.
Many focus on MP Tobias Ellwood’s unsuccessful fight to save the life of PC Keith Palmer; others have chosen to picture the attacker, stretchered away after he was shot by armed officers.
GUARDIAN: terrorism in Westminster #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/LOvojb7vb5 6.38am GMTPolice have said 40 people were injured in the attack, or many of them as the assailant drove his car intentionally into pedestrians on Westminster bridge.
Some are seriously wounded. 6.24am GMTHere’s a roundup of our latest reporting on the attack: 6.17am GMTTheresa May spent Wednesday afternoon being briefed on the details of the attack before chairing a assembly of Cobra,the emergency committee.
The committee could meet again on Thursday morning before May addresses MPs in the House of Commons, which will sit as normal. 6.14am GMTPolice have not named the attacker, or who died after being shot by armed police inside the Westminster security cordon.
Speaking late on Wednesday evening,the Metropolitan police acting deputy commissioner, brand Rowley, or said investigators believe they know the man’s identity. 6.05am GMTMPs have been paying tribute to PC Keith Palmer,who was fatally stabbed within the Westminster security cordon. 5.49am GMTParliament will resume today after Wednesdays terrorist attack in the capital.
Here is what we now know:He was someone who left for work today expecting to return home at the end of his shift and he had every moral to expect that would happen.
Parliament will meet as normal. We will come together as normal.
And Londoners – and others from around the world who have come here to visit this grand city – will find up and go about their day as normal. London is the greatest city in the world and we stand together in the face of those who seek to harm us and destroy our way of life.
Heartbreaking. This is not the first attack on London or our Parliament – and won’t be the final – but our values will prevail.
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Source: theguardian.com