"Enough is enough... things need to change" said UK Prime Minister Theresa May in a statement after seven people were killed in a London terror attack on Saturday night.
Speaking outside Downing Street on Sunday morning after a meeting of the government's crisis response committee, May called for a review of the UK's anti-terrorism strategy.
“We are experiencing a new trend as terrorism breeds terrorism and perpetrators are inspired to act,” May said, adding that things need to change in four important ways: persuading people the values of extremism are wrong; not giving terrorists a safe space, particularly online; action to counter “tolerance of extremism in our country”; and a review of the British counter-terrorism strategy.
The prime minister confirmed that the country's parliamentary election will go ahead on Thursday and national political campaigning will resume on Monday. Major British political parties suspended campaigning at a national level on Sunday in the wake of the attack.
May also said that all three attackers wore fake explosive vests in an attempt to sow panic.
At least seven people were killed and 48 others injured in central London late on Saturday after a white van mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge, before stopping at nearby Borough Market, where three suspects stabbed a number of people, including an on-duty British Transport Police officer.
May’s statement came after London police updated the death toll in the terror attack to seven, from the six previously stated. Police added that the three suspects were shot dead and the incident was under control.
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