Butt, 27, was British citizen born in Pakistan, previously known to both police and MI5. Redouane, 30, had claimed to be both Moroccan and Libyan
Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader, said police and security services were suffering from a lack of resources, rather than a lack of powers, during a BBC Question Time programme in which he was challenged over his party’s plans to roll back surveillance.
Farron said he firmly believed that terror attacks, such as those in London and Manchester over the past weeks, should not motivate an increase in censorship or invasions of privacy:
What do the [terrorists] want us to do? To give up on our freedoms and our liberties– those are the things we must not sacrifice otherwise the terrorists will have won.
Was it because of a lack of surveillance or a lack of resources? It seems to me that we have the powers to follow and track criminals … what we don’t have is sufficient pairs of eyes and pairs of hands in our security services and our police forces in order to pursue them and catch them.
We are much safer if we invest in our police and our security services. The cuts that Theresa May has made in her years as home secretary and then prime minister have not made us safer.
Related: Tim Farron: security services need more resources – not more powers
Earlier on Monday evening, hundreds of people gathered for a vigil in Potters Fields, next to City Hall, for the victims of the London attack.
Among those attending were the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan; the home secretary, Amber Rudd, the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
Related: Vigil for the victims of London Bridge attacks – in pictures
This is Claire Phipps picking up the live blog again.
Many of Tuesday’s newspapers – you can see them here– focus on what was known about the attackers, particularly Khuram Butt, before they launched their assault on London Bridge.
The Guardian front page, Tuesday 06.06.17: Britain faces ‘completely different level’ of terror threat, police warn pic.twitter.com/se0YUr1R5E
British values are superior to the messages of terror supporters, the prime minister said as she signed a book of condolence for the victims of the London Bridge attack.
The book of condolence will be available for the public to sign at Southwark council’s headquarters in Tooley Street from 9am on Tuesday.
As a city and a nation, we come together to remember the innocent victims of this evil and brutal attack.
We stand together in tribute to the extraordinary professionalism and bravery of our police and emergency services - and the courage of members of the public who defended themselves and others from the attackers.
Some more details on those reports that Ismail Abedi has been released: Greater Manchester police confirmed that a 23-year-old man arrested in the Chorlton area of Manchester had been allowed to go free, though they did not name him.
Latest update in Manchester Arena investigation pic.twitter.com/wt9Q8SR7Cc
Following Saturday’s attack, the British Red Cross has launched a solidarity fund to help the victims of terror anywhere in the UK.
The fund will “support people who have been injured, bereaved or traumatised by terror attacks in the UK, helping to alleviate immediate suffering and ensure that victims and their families do not face short-term financial difficulties”, the organisation says.
Words cannot describe the grief and anger that Londoners are feeling following the cowardly attack on our city on Saturday night.
As we slowly come to terms with this tragic event, I know many Londoners will want to support the victims and their families, together with those who have lost loved ones or been injured during the recent horrendous attack in Manchester.
The events in these two great British cities in the last two weeks are shocking and horrifying. Our thoughts are with all of those affected at this terribly difficult time.
The new UK Solidarity Fund will support victims of the attacks and their families, and provide a way for people to donate to help those affected in their time of need. It will also help us to stand prepared to swiftly provide support in the event of future incidents.
My colleagues Vikram Dodd and Robert Booth write that Britain will need to radically change its strategy to stop jihadi attacks because the threat is now at a “completely different” level of danger, according to the country’s top counter-terrorism officer.
Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, said the changes could cover police, MI5, communities, technology companies, the law and other policies.
Related: Britain faces ‘different level’ of terror threat after London Bridge attacks
The Press Association is reporting that Ismail Abedi, the brother of Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi, has been released without charge, citing police sources.
My colleagues Lisa O’Carroll and Matt Taylor have been in east London talking to people who knew Rachid Redouane. They say his wife, from whom he was separated, was not a convert to Islam - contrary to reports.
Redouane lived with his Irish heritage wife Charise Ann O’Leary and her mother in a block of flats in Dagenham.
In a statement released on Monday evening, Scotland Yard added:
Specialist officers are working with families of victims and the coroner to identify those who were killed in Saturday’s attack at the appropriate time.
Family liaison officers have now deployed into all those families where we believe people to be dead. Family liaison officers have also been deployed to support one family where we believe one person is still missing.
All 12 of the people arrested by officers investigating the London Bridge terror attack have been released without charge, Scotland Yard says.
They were seven women, aged between 19 and 60 years old and five men aged between 27 and 55 years old. All but one - a 38-year-old woman - were arrested at the same address in Barking, in east London. That woman was arrested at another address nearby. None has been named by police.
Fears are growing for missing Brisbane woman Sara Zelenak, who became separated from friends at the scene of the London Bridge terrorism attack. A Facebook post by a family friend shared hundreds of times on Monday appealed for information about the 21-year-old, saying she usually rang her mother daily.
Zelenak’s stepfather, Mark Wallace, said from Brisbane that British authorities had been unable to shed any light on where she was following the attack on Saturday night UK time.
Related: Fears for Brisbane woman Sara Zelenak, missing since London Bridge attack
The security services are facing their worst crisis since the 2005 London bombing, with the increased frequency of attacks placing enormous pressure on the police and the UK’s domestic intelligence agency MI5, Ewen MacAskill, Vikram Dodd and Robert Booth write.
Questions are being raised about why the police and MI5 failed to prevent three attacks in quick succession. MI5 will have to explain why it failed to monitor more closely one of the London Bridge attackers, Khuram Butt, given his links to al-Muhajiroun, the banned extremist group whose leader, Anjem Choudary, has been linked to the recruitment of more than 100 British terror suspects.
Related: Police and MI5 face further scrutiny after third attack since March
Liam Connell, from Worcester Park, was with a group of friends celebrating Ellie Rowan’s 23rd birthday in Katzenjammers on Southwark Street on Saturday evening, when the attack began. Connell helped a man who had been stabbed in the neck as the police locked down the bar. He and Rowan said they had come to the vigil because “it was important for us to do it. We needed to take part and pay our respects to everyone.”
John Loughrey, a 63-year-old bell ringer from Streatham, in south London, was at the vigil on the banks of the Thames today. He held a union flag in the air throughout the service. He said:
I am here to show respect to the people who were murdered and the injured. The whole world shows them respect. We will win and continue normal life.
It is really sad that we have had to do this for a third time. It is frustrating what is going on right now. We are standing here in solidarity and as Muslims. This is not what our religion teaches us.
Spain’s foreign minister, Alfonso Dastis, says the government hopes to have news about the missing Spaniard Ignacio Echeverría“within the next few hours” and is not ruling anything out when it comes to his condition.
Echeverría, 39, has not been seen since he apparently used his skateboard to defend a woman injured by the London Bridge attackers near Borough Market on Saturday night.
More has come in on Antonis Filis, the London-resident Greek who sustained head injuries and knife wounds to his kidney in the attack.
The Greek embassy has released a statement saying it expects the 35-year-old, who has been operated on, to be discharged from the London hospital where he is recovering by the end of the week. “The embassy and the ministry of foreign affairs will continue to stand by him and his family,” said the statement following a visit to his bedside by the Greek ambassador Dimitris Caramitsos-Tziras.
Scotland Yard’s commissioner, Cressida Dick, says the authorities are confronting a “new reality” after the three terror attacks that have hit the UK in just 10 weeks.
Commander Mak Chishty, of the Metropolitan police, has delivered a statement on behalf of the capital’s Muslim community.
This terrorist attack is an attack on all communities, including Muslim communities.
Every time a terrorist attack takes place, Muslim communities either face or fear a backlash against them.
Two French citizens are missing after the London Bridge and Borough Market attack and one has been confirmed dead, France’s foreign minister has said.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, who met the families of some of the injured on Monday afternoon, said at a brief press conference at the French embassy in London that six French nationals remained in hospital, including four in a critical condition. Two were discharged on Monday.
A vigil has been taking place near Tower Bridge, in central London.
The view of the crowds at the vigil from London Bridge pic.twitter.com/zdYvpCNOyO
People of all religions turning up to the vigil, including the chaplaincy team from Guys' hospital pic.twitter.com/IVC2emoAQq
Residents have come to show solidarity at their local park where the vigil is being held. pic.twitter.com/mfcrwhTpAw
Minute of silence for the victims of Saturday's attack in London. pic.twitter.com/LPyYzJhEVl
We are here in remembrance for the innocent lives lost and the people injured in the barbaric attack on our city on Saturday night.
London stands in defiance against this cowardly attack on our city, our people, our values and our way of life. I want to send a clear message to the sick and evil extremists who committed these hideous crimes. We will defeat you. You will not win.
This is our city, these are our values and this is our way of life. London will never be broken by terrorism and we will put up a fight against extremism and we will defeat the terrorists.
Cockney Keith, the big issue vendor outside London Bridge, is among those at the vigil "we live in scary times but this city is resilient" pic.twitter.com/2j9aK6kByP
It could so easily have been us or people we knew. I can’t help but feel this will make people afraid, when they are specifically targeting innocent people who are going out and enjoying themselves. I am worried what it will do to the spirit of London.
One of the terrorists who attacked London on Saturday, killing seven people, had been previously known to police and MI5.
Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer, assistant commissioner Mark Rowley admitted that Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, had been investigated in 2015 and that a member of the public had called the anti-terrorism hotline to raise concerns. But Rowley said no evidence had been found of attack planning or criminality and the investigation had dropped into the “lower echelons” of priorities for counter-terrorism investigators.
A statement from Scotland Yard said: “Khuram Shazad Butt was known to the police and MI5. However, there was no intelligence to suggest that this attack was being planned and the investigation had been prioritised accordingly. The other named man, Rachid Redouane, was not known.”
The Met’s assistant commissioner, Mark Rowley, added:
At any one time, MI5 and police are conducting around 500 active investigations, involving 3,000 subjects of interest. Additionally, there are around 20,000 individuals who are former subjects of interest, whose risk remains subject to review by MI5 and its partners.
The security and intelligence services and police have stopped 18 plots since 2013, including five since the Westminster attack two months ago.
Releasing the names of two of the three attackers, Scotland Yard said:
Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, (20.4.90), was a British citizen who was born in Pakistan. Rachid Redouane, 30 (31.7.86) had claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan. He also used the name Rachid Elkhdar, with a different date of birth of 31.7.91. Inquiries are ongoing to confirm the identity of their accomplice.
Detectives would like to hear from anyone who has any information about these men that may assist them with the investigation. They are particularly keen to hear about places they may have frequented and their movements in the days and hours before the attack.
Police have now released images of both of the attackers named so far: Khuram Butt (left) and Rachid Redouane (right).
Khuram Butt, one of the three jihadi attackers who killed seven people in London on Saturday, was a supporter of the banned Islamist group al-Muhajiroun who only last month was spotted urging people in east London not to participate in the general election.
The 27-year old was described by locals in his neighbourhood of Barking, east London, as the son of parents from Jhelum, a town in Pakistan’s Punjab province. He is believed to have been brought up in Britain, become a keen supporter of Arsenal football club, whose shirt he wore during the attack, and to have spoken with a London accent. It is not clear whether he was born in the UK or abroad.
Related: London Bridge attacker named as Khuram Butt
Khuram Butt, one of the London attackers, appeared in the Channel 4 documentary the Jihadis Next Door last year.
The Met police’s assistant commissioner, Mark Rowley, said Butt was known to the security services but there was no evidence of “attack planning”.
Scotland Yard has named two of the attackers as Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, both from Barking, in east London.
The third has not yet been named.
A vigil for the victims of Saturday night’s attack is due to start in London in about 10 minutes.
People starting to arrive for the vigil near London Bridge. pic.twitter.com/BgERaWthmf
At the vigil for the London Bridge attack victims. Students from Eden Girls' School Waltham Forest have come to pay their respects pic.twitter.com/Y1gf4mooA1
Speaking to some of the women who have come to lay flowers here at the vigil. pic.twitter.com/NiM62ZxIbs
Mohammed Kozbar, the chair of the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, told the Guardian that he was worried by Theresa May’s comments after the attack.
“The measures she might take could affect the whole community, not just extremists,” he said. “Muslims have to be part of the solution.”
Londoners will gather at 6pm at Potters Fields Park, next to City Hall, for a vigil honouring the victims of Saturday’s attack.
Sadiq Khan announced the event in a statement on Sunday:
The mayor invites all Londoners – and everyone visiting our city – to come together in solidarity to remember those who have lost their lives in Saturday’s attack, to express sympathy with their families and loved ones and to show the world that we stand united in the face of those who seek to harm us and our way of life.
Faith leaders and representatives of civic and community groups came together under the banner of “One London One Community” at the East London mosque to condemn Saturday’s attack and call for unity.
Muhammad Habibur-Rahman, the mosque’s chair, said Londoners were united against “those who try to divide us”. He described the perpetrators as “evil terrorists” who espoused a “twisted narrative and perversion of the religion of Islam”.
He added:
Their hatred of mainstream Muslims rivals that of the extreme right.
To condemn is only halfway. We must also actively confront, loudly and clearly.
The police watchdog, the IPCC said 46 shots in total were fired by eight police officers – three officers from City of London police and five from the Metropolitan Police Service.
Here is the clip of Melissa McMullan, 30, tearfully telling Sky News that she believes her brother to be dead.
The sister of 32-year-old James McMullan says she believes he was killed in Saturday's attack in London pic.twitter.com/3WLv4XbU5w
This morning we received news from the police that my brother’s bank card was found on one of the bodies from Saturday night’s brutal attack. They are unable to formally identify him until the coroner’s report begins tomorrow.
While our pain will never diminish it is important for us to carry on with our lives in direct opposition to those who would try to destroy us, and remember that hatred is the refuge of small-minded individuals and will only breed more. This is not a course we will follow despite our loss.
From his [James’s] friends who were with him on the night, they want everyone to know what a generous and caring friend he was. Words will never be able to match his essence. There will only ever be one James. Nowhere else will you find such humour and unique personality and someone who puts friends and family above all else. He was an inspiration.
Melissa McMullan said her brother James was believed to have died as his bank card was found on a body at the scene.
The family of James McMullan, 32 have said they believe he was among the seven people killed in Saturday’s attack, Sky News reported.
He has not been seen since he became separated from his friends while smoking outside a bar.
The Muslim Council of Britain says more than 130 imams and religious leaders from diverse backgrounds have refused to perform the funeral prayer for the London attackers, in what it calls “an unprecedented move”. They have also urged others to do likewise. In a statement, they say:
Alongside our friends and neighbours, we mourn this attack on our home, society and people and feel pain for the suffering of the victims and their families. We pray to God that the perpetrators be judged in accordance with the gravity of their crimes in the hereafter. Their acts and wilful dismissal of our religious principles alienates them from any association with our community for whom the inviolability of every human life is the founding principle.
Consequently, and in light of other such ethical principles which are quintessential to Islam, we will not perform the traditional Islamic funeral prayer for the perpetrators and we also urge fellow imams and religious authorities to withdraw such a privilege. This is because such indefensible actions are completely at odds with the lofty teachings of Islam.
Further to our earlier update, Merseyside police say they have arrested two men on suspicion of inciting racial hatred in relation to videos shared on social media yesterday about the recent terror attacks in London and Manchester.
A spokesman for Merseyside police said:
A 39-year-old man from Mossley Hill has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence following a video shared on social media, in which a man is seen with a bladed weapon making comments about recent terrorist attacks. The 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and has been taken to a police station for questioning.
A 39-year-old man from Kirkby has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence following a separate video which shows a man in an Everton shirt making comments about recent terrorist attacks. The 39-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and has been taken to a police station for questioning.
Jeremy Corbyn has now recorded a TV clip clarifying his remark earlier saying he supported calls for Theresa May to resign over police cuts. (See 12.39pm.) He is now saying he just wants people to vote her our of office on Thursday.
Asked if he wanted her to resign, he replied:
No. I think we should vote on Thursday to decide who our MPs are and decide who our government is going to be.
I’m not backing away from anything. What I’m saying is there’s an election on now, there’s a choice before everybody. I’m articulating what is a deep anger amongst those people that have seen 20,000 police officers lose their jobs, that have seen firefighters lose their jobs, ambulance crews unable to cope with the [pressures] they are under. I think she needs to think about what she did as home secretary.
The MI5 chief, Andrew Parker, has released a statement. In it, he says:
With the rest of the country we are all appalled by the dreadful terrorist attack in London on Saturday night. Our thoughts are with everyone affected.
We are extremely grateful for the numerous messages of support and encouragement from members of the public as we continue, alongside our partners, our unceasing efforts against the terrorist threat.
The employers of Ignacio Echeverría, the 39-year-old Spaniard who has not been seen since apparently trying to help a woman caught up in Saturday’s attacks, have hired a detective to help the family in its search, the Spanish news agency Efe reports.
Mak Chishty, a commander at the Metropolitan police and the force’s lead on hate crime, read out a statement on behalf of “London’s Muslim community” outside New Scotland Yard, urging Muslims to “do more”.
He said:
This terrorist attack is an attack on all communities, including Muslim communities.
Every time a terrorist attack takes place, Muslim communities either face or fear a backlash against them. The Muslim community appeals to all sections within their own communities to root out the scourge of terrorism which hides amongst their own people and masquerades as Islam.
Nicola Sturgeon has tetchily confirmed she fully expects Scotland to be independent by the mid-2020s, in answer to a poorly phrased question by Julie Etchingham on ITV Tonight, to which a Scottish National party leader’s answer will always be yes.
In an excerpt released on Twitter before the interview is broadcast tonight, which includes a question on her husband, Peter Murrell, chief executive of the SNP, Etchingham asks Sturgeon whether she believes Scotland will have voted for independence by 2025.
Scotland will be independent by 2025, @nicolasturgeon tells @julieetchitv. See the full interview tonight at 8pm on @ITV. #LeaderInterviewspic.twitter.com/1tdN83ofPW
Sadiq Khan is not responding to the latest provocation from President Trump. This is from PoliticsHome’s Kevin Schofield.
Spokeswoman for Sadiq Khan on latest Trump tweet: "The Mayor is focused on dealing with Saturday’s horrific and cowardly attack."
Earlier Theresa May was asked about President Trump, and his comments about the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, in her Q&A with journalists in London. In response to the first question she sided with Khan strongly, saying he was doing “an excellent job”. But the journalists found it harder to get her to say anything critical about the American president. After two unsuccessful attempts a reporter asked what Trump would have to do to make her say anything negative about him. She thought he was wrong about climate change, she said. But what about Khan? Finally, this prompted her to take a swipe at the tweet he posted yesterday (albeit in the mildest terms). May replied:
I think Sadiq Khan is doing a good job and it’s wrong to say anything else - he’s doing a good job.
President Trump has renewed his criticism of Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London. He has just posted this.
Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!
At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!"
My message to Londoners and visitors to our great city is to be calm and vigilant today. You will see an increased police presence today, including armed officers and uniformed officers. There is no reason to be alarmed by this.
Merseyside police are reported to have issued arrest warrants in relation Islamophobic videos, after clips were circulated showing a man with a hand grenade and a machete blade making threats against members of Muslim communities in the wake of the London Bridge attack.
Tell Mama, which monitors Anti-Muslim attacks, said the videos were removed from Facebook.
There are concerns for Australian Sara Zelenak, 21, reportedly last seen running from the attack on London Bridge where she became separated from friends.
She works as a nanny, and has not been in contact with family or friends since, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported. The station said Australian consular staff in London were working with her friends to try and track her down.
Theresa May is now taking questions.
She says now is not the time to be talking about a Scottish independence referendum.
A French citizen missing since Saturday night is understood to be Xavier Thomas. His girlfriend, Christine Delcros, was seriously injured. Her sister, Nathalie Cros Brohan, posted online that she was on her way to London to visit Christine in hospital. She made an appeal for anyone with news of Xavier Thomas to get in touch, adding: “We are terribly worried.”
Related: London attack: one Canadian and one French citizen among those killed
Theresa May is now speaking at a campaign event in Edinburgh.
Tories in Scotland waiting for PM to arrive have been told to make sure there's lots of cheering or 'it will look like there is no one here' pic.twitter.com/mvNRR5MhBC
Barriers have been installed on three central London bridges following the latest terror attack, PA reports.
The structures have been introduced to stop traffic from mounting the pavement on Westminster, Lambeth and Waterloo bridges.
Early start - and not a great sight for Londoners to wake up to. Concrete bollards being installed on Lambeth Bridge. pic.twitter.com/cvv26PmEFF
Sad to see new barrier on Waterloo Bridge - tho it's for our protection #London#StrongerTogetherpic.twitter.com/qEdVMnl0DT
Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, has just held a press conference in central London with six union leaders and officials representing emergency and public service workers to highlight what they all said was the impact of Theresa May’s cuts on security and counter-terrorism.
This is a potentially difficult argument to make, less than 48 hours after the London Bridge attack, and all the unions are previous critics of such cuts. But one of the union leaders, Mark Serwotka, who heads the PCS union, which represents police community support officers (PCSOs) and other civilian staff at the Met police, and border force workers, denied it was insensitive timing.
The Metropolitan police commander for engagement, Mak Chishty, the highest-ranking officer of Muslim faith, has called on Muslim communities to do more to root out extremism.
The Muslim Council of Britain has said it agrees with Theresa May that “enough is enough” in relation to extremism and pledged to work in partnership with the government and the prime minister to “keep our country safe”.
A Greek man who was among those injured in Saturday night’s attack has been identified as Antonis Filis.
The émigré, who was knifed in the kidney and whose plight first became known via a video posted on the Sun’s website, has been identified as the 35-year-old grandson of a former mayor of Lamia, in central Greece.
The German foreign office has confirmed that at least two German citizens were injured in Saturday night’s attack, one of them sustaining serious injuries.
A spokesperson would not confirm whether the two victims were tourists or German citizens based in the UK.
At his news briefing with Cressida Dick, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, said he was “furious” about the terrorists using Islam to try to justify what they did.
The act of these three men on Saturday night was cowardly, was evil. And I’m angry and furious that these three men are seeking to justify their action by using the faith that I belong to in order to justify their actions.
The ideology they follow is perverse, it is poisonous, and it has no place in Islam. And I condemn this terrorist attack but also the poisonous ideology these men and others follow.
Three of those injured in the attacks are no longer being treated in critical care but are still in hospital, NHS England has just said in a brief update.
That means the number of casualties receiving critical care has fallen from 21 yesterday to 18.
The British Red Cross has set up an appeal on the fundraising platform JustGiving to support the victims and their families.
The UK Solidarity Fund has already raised more than £70,000 from more than 3,000 people. All proceeds will support those affected by the terrorist events in London and Manchester and any similar incidents in the future in the UK.
Here are some more lines from Jeremy Corbyn’s inteview with ITV News.
The primary responsibility for this lies with those who did it, they killed people in cold blood in a disgusting and appalling way and there’s no words other than total condemnation.
On the issues of policing, the government has been warned repeatedly about police cuts, and the Police Federation and many others [have said] how 20,000 have gone down over the past seven years.
I have not changed my mind on shoot-to-kill. The criticisms that were made of me were I think wrong and unfair and indeed the BBC Trust upheld an objection on this.
As far as I am concerned the police act, as they did on Saturday, as they did in Manchester, in defence of innocent life. That is a reasonable and proportionate response, as happened in Westminster.
In Barking, another neighbour said the suspected attacker wearing an Arsenal top when he was killed by the police “had issues”, and described an ongoing dispute over parking.
Asim Oddin, 39, who lived near the suspect, said: “He used to park outside the flats which isn’t allowed and blocked everybody. We had an altercation when I told him not to park here. He said not to follow the system; he was quite rude.”
THE SUN: Jihadi killer in an Arsenal shirt #tomorrowspaperstodaypic.twitter.com/n6pc7xr7Jp
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, and Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, are making a joint appearance at Borough Market.
In response to a question, Dick says all of us need to look at the overall strategy, tactics and resources available for counter-terrorism in light of the three attacks in the UK this year.
Here is the quote where Jeremy Corbyn said Theresa May should resign over police cuts. Asked in an ITV interview if he supported calls for her to resign, he replied:
Indeed I would, because there’s been calls made by a lot of very responsible people on this who are very worried that she was at the Home Office for all this time, presided over these cuts in police numbers and is now saying that we have a problem - yes, we do have a problem, we should never have cut the police numbers.
We’ve got an election on Thursday and that’s perhaps the best opportunity to deal with it.
The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, and the Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, are due to give statements to the press at the scene of the attack.
Waiting near #londonbridgestation for press statements by @SadiqKhan and @metpoliceuk commissioner Cressida Dick. #londonterrorattackpic.twitter.com/cvBdan5O4h
A neighbour of one of the suspected attackers said he saw the van used in the attack outside a block of flats in Barking, east London, on Friday – and again on Saturday afternoon.
The London Evening Standard carries one of the last images of Christine Archibald, the first victim of the attack to be named. It shows her with her fiance, Tyler Ferguson, in whose arms she died.
Today's @EveningStandard on the tragic last moments of victim of London attack + first interview with @theresa_may& @SadiqKhan article pic.twitter.com/TTeD0a5RSJ
The Guardian’s Owen Jones says Theresa May has serious questions to answer over police cuts. Here’s his column.
Related: Theresa May has serious questions to answer, starting with police cuts | Owen Jones
Ex-senior Metropolitan police officer Peter Kirkham has accused the government of lying about the number of armed officers on the streets following the attack. Speaking to Sky News, Kirkham said the police service “is in crisis” due to public spending cuts.
Jeremy Corbyn has said Theresa May should resign because of her record on police funding, ITV’s Rachel Younger reports.
BREAKING: @jeremycorbyn tells me Theresa May should resign as Prime Minister over her record regarding police funding
The Muslim owner of Borough Market’s largest restaurant has spoken of his concerns over community relations at the market following Saturday’s terror attacks which killed seven people.
Iqbal Wahhab, the founder of Roast, said there could be a change of attitude towards Muslims within wider society and within the market’s community of traders and workers following the latest attack.
Q: Why would Nicola Sturgeon not have a mandate for a second independence referendum after the election?
May says now is not the time for a second independence referendum.
Here’s a guide to the properties raided so far
Religious leaders must take responsibility for tackling actions taken in the name of faith, Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has said.
Q: Do you accept that you were wrong to accuse those who criticised the police cuts of “crying wolf”. Do you accept that that was wrong, and would you reverse police cuts?
May says she has already addressed this. She repeats the points made earlier. See 11.18am.
Theresa May is now taking questions.
Q: Cressida Dick said this morning we had to look at the case for more police officers. Do you agree, and were you wrong to cut numbers.
May says she is speaking in the same room in central London where she launched her leadership campaign last summer.
She said at the time that it was not the time for a prime minister who would have to learn on the job. That is even more true now, she says.
Theresa May is still speaking.
She says Corbyn would throw away all the work the government has done on Brexit. He would tear up the government’s white paper, and we do not know if he would try to stay in the customs union, she says.
Police in Ireland are holding a special security meeting after it emerged that one of the London attackers lived in Ireland for a time, the Irish broadcaster RTE reports.
Gardaí have confirmed that an Irish identity card was found on one of the three attackers shot dead by police in London.
He was not however known to the gardaí here and did not come to their attention in relation to any crime or security issues.
Theresa May is delivering a speech now.
She says that our democratic way of life must go on after the London Bridge terror attacks, and so she will return to the theme of the choice facing voters.
Theresa May: "Our way of life and democratic process must go on"
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Cressida Dick, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, has given at least two interviews this morning. Asked about police cuts, she said that “any police leader would always want more resources” but that, ahead of the election, she did not want to get into a political argument about this.
In the clip recorded for broadcasters, the reporter mentioned Dick’s comments and then asked Theresa May if she regretted presiding over cuts that saw police numbers fall by 20,000. May replied:
The commissioner of the Metropolitan police has said that the Met is well resourced, and they are, and that they have very powerful counter-terrorism capabilities, and they do. We have protected counter-terrorism policing budgets. We have also provided funding for an increase in the number of armed police officers. Since 2015 we have protected overall police budgets, and that’s despite the fact that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party in the House of Commons suggested that police budgets could be cut.
But it’s also about the powers that we give to the police. We have given increased powers to the police to be able to deal with terrorists, powers which Jeremy Corbyn has boasted he has always opposed.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party in the House of Commons suggested that police budgets could be cut.
We have given increased powers to the police to be able to deal with terrorists, powers which Jeremy Corbyn has boasted he has always opposed.
Hospitals have increased security measures in the aftermath of the terror attack.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust – which runs Guy’s hospital, situated in London Bridge and nearby St Thomas’ hospital – said it was operating “with enhanced security”.
Our services are running as usual today but we have enhanced security. Please bring appointment letters and ID, if possible. pic.twitter.com/oHvD0kRu5v
Theresa May has recorded a clip for broadcasters which has just been shown on Sky and BBC News.
She says the police have identified all the attackers. She says 11 people are in custody.
A man emerged from the yellow house raided by police in Dagenham under a blanket a short while ago pic.twitter.com/MmsStLzl9b
A man emerged under a blanket from a Dagenham house raided by police in connection with the London terror attack at about 10.15am. He was holding a blanket to his head with one hand over his face and the other at this waist.
Heavy police presence at Dagenham. Ongoing search at shabby house right next to A13 pic.twitter.com/2VUpBpMdNf
One of the two addresses raided by police on Monday is on Caledon Road in Newham, according to PA.
A police van is parked in the middle of the road and the street of terraced houses is cordoned off at both ends.
Questions have been asked about how much police and the intelligence services knew about the three men who carried out the attack.
Related: Questions raised about police knowledge of London Bridge attackers
The BBC Question Time special with the Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, and Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish National party leader, is being filmed and broadcast tonight on BBC1 at 9pm after the BBC postponed the scheduled event yesterday evening after the London Bridge terror attack.
Farron and Sturgeon are on the campaign trail in Scotland today and their Question Time contest highlights several battles between the two parties. The Lib Dems are pitching to win back a handful of former Lib Dem seats in East Dunbartonshire, Edinburgh West, North East Fife and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross won by the SNP in 2015.
This morning Karen Bradley, the culture secretary and a former Home Office minister, refused to answer when asked on ITV’s Good Morning Britain if the number of armed police had gone down since 2010. (See 7.43am.) It’s not hard to guess why. The Times’ Matt Chorley has the figures.
If only someone had given Karen Bradley this chart, she could have answered the question on whether the number of armed police has been cut pic.twitter.com/qP6Sy4aUbs
You cannot protect the public on the cheap the police and security services must get the resources they need not 20,000 police cuts.
Theresa May was warned by the Police Federation but she accused them of “crying wolf”.
Theresa May must level with the British people and accept that on her watch armed officer numbers were cut. She asks us to trust her on security but the truth is as home secretary she cut armed officers and cut community police numbers.
The Liberal Democrats would provide our police with £300m extra funding a year and would do what is needed to tackle the scourge of violent extremism.
In the area around London Bridge there are as yet few flowers laid for victims of Saturday night’s attacks.
Dave Austin, from Epping, was looking for the right place to leave a bunch.
"#London's got a subdued feel this morning." Dave Austin, from Epping, with flowers for the #LondonBridgeAttack victims pic.twitter.com/vE0Ck3qTQd
Southwark cathedral and Borough Market remain closed as a police cordon remains in place in several streets to the south-west of London Bridge.
The Cathedral remains closed due to ongoing @metpoliceuk investigation. We will be posting updates when we receive them #LondonBridge
The Market remains closed today
8.15am update - this is the current extent of the police cordon at #londonbridge. pic.twitter.com/rLgyDza5Hu
The latest Guardian/ICM poll is out this morning. And it suggests that the Conservative lead remains in double digits. Here are the figures.
Conservatives: 45% (no change from Guardian/ICM last week)
Compared to other polls over the weekend, ours slots in the higher end of the Tory lead range, one point off ComRes’s 12-pointer. At the other end, Survation revealed a Tory lead of only one point. A moderately significant dividing line has emerged between sets of pollsters, largely pivoting on how we treat turnout. This has been widely discussed in polling circles since the Labour ‘surge’, which is at least partially based on younger people and 2015 non-voters saying they will now turn out, and vote for Labour.
Those pollsters, like us, who show higher Tory leads are implicitly sceptical about the extent of this self-reported turnout. Those with lower Labour leads largely take it at face value. But whichever turnout weighting scheme is applied, the impact is clear: as Sturgis & Jennings of the University of Southampton established in this paper, which was published yesterday.
The imposition of historical-based turnout probabilities (assuming that behaviours will tend toward the historical pattern) drives down the Labour and upweights the Tories. Self-reported turnout scales, largely employed by those pollsters showing the smallest Labour leads, hardly impact on the headline numbers. June 9th will show which was the better scheme, but here’s the age profile of voters from all general elections since 1964, courtesy of the House of Commons Library.
For my part, it’s hard to reconcile between 38%-54% estimated turnout among 18-24s since 1997 with one recent poll, which suggested that 82% of them would turn out to vote. But who knows? Jeremy Corbyn has, to common agreement, run a good campaign and has motivated sections of the society who have tended to disengagement. On Friday, we will have the answer on whether he has bucked the trend, or not.
Police cordons around London Bridge railway station were lifted earlier than planned on Monday, PA reports.
The station – which is the fourth busiest in the UK – was initially expected to be exit-only when it reopened at 5am.
Islamic State (Isis) has claimed responsibility for Saturday night’s attack via Amaq, its main communications channel, but evidence linking the group to the atrocity is sketchy.
A mistake on the date meant the claim had to be retracted and re-issued, and details were thin. The group simply said that a “detachment of fighters” from the group were responsible for the violence in London.
#ISIS-linked Amaq Media has issued a very brief claim of responsibility for yesterday's attack in #London - take link w. some salt for now. pic.twitter.com/gY3BMAKoVx
Four police officers were injured in Saturday night’s attack, including two on-duty Metropolitan officers, Scotland Yard has announced.
One of those injured was a British Transport officer, who was stabbed in the head as he he tried to foil the attack. Another was a an off-duty Met officer, who remains in hospital in a serious condition.
New barriers have been put up on Westminster Bridge to separate pedestrians from vehicles.
Theresa May’s “enough is enough” response to the attack risks making the extremist threat worse, according Richard Barrett a former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6.
Writing for the Guardian he says:
The prime minister must be careful in equating terrorism with Islamist extremism. Whatever comment she added about the true values of Islam, this juxtaposition of terms is too simple a description for such a complex phenomenon: May’s use of words plays to the binary division that terrorists try to create between Muslims and the rest. In talking to officials in Muslim-majority countries about common approaches to terrorism, or to individual Muslims about defeating the terrorist narrative, I have almost always found criticism of the way the west approaches the problem in two areas.
First, officials complain that western governments tolerate extremist speech directed against these Muslim-majority countries because it does not contravene the law and falls under freedom of expression. This may be true, but it is totally defensible. The protection of individual freedoms, and the rule of law, are fundamental to a healthy and united society.
Related: Theresa May’s ‘enough is enough’ risks making the extremist threat worse | Richard Barrett
Spanish authorities said on Monday that they were still trying to find Ignacio Echeverría, a 39-year-old Spaniard who has not been seen since the attack on Saturday night.
Echeverría, who lives in London, had apparently been skateboarding in a park with friends when he stopped to help a woman who had been injured in the atrocity. His family have put out an appeal on Facebook, but is still awaiting news.
The Greek embassy has confirmed that a London-based Greek citizen was also among those injured in the attack saying the young man has been operated on after being knifed in the kidney.
“He sustained head injuries and was stabbed in the kidney but has been operated on and is in stable condition, out of danger,” Alexis Georgiadis, a spokesman at the Greek embassy, told the Guardian. “I have just spoken with his father and our ambassador will be visiting him today.”
Police vans were parked outside a car repair shop on the Ripple Road section of the A13 in Dagenham in east London.
James Bateman, who lives at the other side of the road, told PA: “At about 4am, after the large bang, I looked outside the window after being woken up and I saw about a dozen armed police officers going to and from an unmarked van.”
Police still on guard outside Dagenham property raided as part of London Bridge attack investigation. Detailed search underway inside pic.twitter.com/dPFv1GD8BH
Steve Hilton, who was director of strategy in Number 10 from 2010 until 2012 and who was a close friend of David Cameron’s until they fell out over the EU referendum (Hilton backed leave), has said Theresa May should resign because she was home secretary when the terror threat escalated.
i am so sick of Theresa May blaming others for terror when the system she presided over has obviously failed so lamentably @NextRevFNCpic.twitter.com/ALo2idz9ym
Theresa May responsible for security failures of London Bridge, Manchester, Westminster Bridge. Should be resigning not seeking re-election pic.twitter.com/2o0odey2BQ
Theresa May blame-shifting again. her spin doctors attack MI5, but she was in charge of them for years... pic.twitter.com/nlmOmuqfO8
A London Bridge businessman, who asked not to be named, said police had allowed him inside the cordon to check on his offices.
He described the scene as like “life had ceased.”
Literally the only armed police I've seen around #londonbridge. They appear to be posing for the cameras pic.twitter.com/VYJOKpvPBT
Karen Bradley, the culture secretary, appeared to accept that the numbers of armed officers had fallen amid more general cutbacks to the police amid austerity after 2010.
Cressida Dick also said that there was “an international dimension” to the changing terrorist threat facing the UK, but the majority of recent attacks and plots have been domestic in focus.
She told Today:
At the moment we seem to be facing a threat that is posed by people [with] largely a domestic focus although there are some international dimensions. We are dealing with people who appear very volatile, very unstable many of them. People who are prepared to use low-tech methods and sometimes go from thinking about the idea to carrying out an attack in a very short space of time. So this is very, very challenging.
“All the recent attacks I think have primarily a domestic centre of gravity. In the five that we have foiled and these three recent attacks, in some of them, there are undoubtedly international dimensions. We will always be looking to see if anything has been directed from overseas but, I would say, the majority of the threat that we are facing at the moment does not appear to be directed from overseas.
We are looking at thousands of subjects of interest.
The rhetoric coming from Daesh [Islamic State] and other organisations has been to encourage people to take action into their own hands to use low-tech methods and undoubtedly when people see something which appears from their perverted point of view to be successful, some people will be inspired by that. So that is a possibility.
The Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, has called for more police resources in the wake of three terrorist attacks in 10 weeks.
A large police cordon remains in place around Borough Market and London Bridge, but the bridge itself is now open to traffic and pedestrians.
#LondonBridge is exit only "until we are advised otherwise," @TfL staff say pic.twitter.com/0U6zqJxi6d
The culture secretary, Karen Bradley, has repeatedly refused to state whether Britain has fewer armed police officers in the wake of police cuts since 2010 when Theresa May became home secretary.
In an angry exchange with ITV’s Piers Morgan, Bradley said: “It is not just about numbers, it is about powers, and Theresa May has never shied away from giving powers to the police.”
I’m now handing the live blog to my colleague Matthew Weaver.
With days to go before voters head to the polls for Thursday’s general election, parties will continue campaigning today. This is in contrast to the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack, when campaigning was suspended for three days by the major parties.
Campaigning is likely to be dominated by the issue of security, with Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron both challenging Theresa May over policing cuts and the UK government’s relations with Saudi Arabia.
Related: The Snap: politicians spar over security after London Bridge attack
Writing in the Times today, Sajid Javid, the communities secretary, says he agrees with Theresa May that British Muslims need to do more to tackle extremism:
Speaking as a Muslim myself, we need to ask ourselves searching questions … There’s no avoiding the fact that these people think they are Muslims. They identify as Muslims. And they carry out their attacks – ignorantly, offensively – in the name of Islam. That’s why, although we all share the responsibility for tackling terrorism, there’s a special, unique burden on the Muslim community …
We need them to set off on the path to peace rather than the road to war. We need to offer not just a counternarrative, which rebuts the extremists, but a positive and self-confident narrative that promotes pluralistic, British values – and their compatibility with an Islamic life. And that message can best come from within the Muslim community.
All of today’s national newspapers in the UK lead with the London attacks, with many using the photograph of the three terror suspects on the ground, after they were shot dead by armed police.
Many also echo the words of Theresa May, who declared in the wake of the attack: “Enough is enough.”
Guardian front page, Monday 5 June 2017 – Seven dead, 21 critically hurt: May says ‘enough is enough’ pic.twitter.com/Id4uihWokg
Related: 'Killer in an Arsenal shirt': what the papers said about the London Bridge attacks
One of the seven victims killed in Saturday night’s attack has been named as Christine Archibald, who was from Canada. Her family has issued a statement asking people to “honour her by making your community a better place”:
We grieve the loss of our beautiful, loving daughter and sister. She had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and respected.
She lived this belief, working in a shelter for the homeless until she moved to Europe to be with her fiancé. She would have had no understanding of the callous cruelty that caused her death.
Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron have both challenged Theresa May over a long-delayed inquiry into foreign funding and support of jihadi groups in the UK, after the Home Office suggested the investigation may not be published.
The inquiry into revenue streams for extremist groups operating in the UK was commissioned by former prime minister David Cameron and is thought to focus on Saudi Arabia.
Related: Theresa May urged not to suppress report into funding of jihadi groups
The three terror suspects shot dead by armed officers in Borough Market have not been named. Police believe they know their identities, but say they will not release the names while operations are continuing.
Fresh raids are taking place this morning in two locations in east London: Newham and Barking.
Tell MAMA, which monitors hate crimes, has told the Guardian that there has been a “measurable” rise in the number of hate incidents reported since the London attack. A spokesperson said: “We are going to be all hands on deck tomorrow managing what is coming in.”
It said it was fielding reports from its Twitter account on Sunday, including one person who claimed to have seen graffiti outside a mosque. Tell MAMA also posted on its website about a video circulating showing a man with what seems to be a hand grenade with a machete blade: “Colleagues in Tell MAMA can confirm that Merseyside police are aware of this video. We have spoken to the force in question and we wanted to reassure community members that the matter is with the relevant force and being reviewed.”
While we have made significant progress in recent years, there is – to be frank – far too much tolerance of extremism in our country.
There is more on the raids this morning. The Press Association reports:
Residents reported hearing “loud flash bangs and gunshots” in the early hours of Monday morning. BatemanLDN said on Twitter: “It woke me up along with the whole street. Extremely loud bangs followed by gunshot bangs. All ok – very shaken residents nearby though. All quietened down now.”
Simon Tucker wrote: “Heard this in the Dagenham area at around 4:15 am. Started with loud explosion sound. Followed by about 20 shots, some sounded distant.”
National Rail says London Bridge rail station is open as normal, for passengers entering and exiting the station.
It says, following advice from the Metropolitan police:
Police cordons around the station were lifted earlier than expected, meaning the national rail station will be open as usual. London Bridge itself – across the Thames – and nearby roads have reopened as well.
Sky News reports that this is one of the properties being searched this morning:
BREAKING - Two more raids in east London this morning in connection with London Bridge attack. This property in Dagenham being searched pic.twitter.com/I4Y0JKyDCd
We have some further information on this morning’s raids from the Metropolitan police. It said officers entered properties in Newham and Barking at 4.15am on Monday and “a number” of people have been detained.
Searches were continuing at both addresses, police added.
Police are searching two addresses in east London in connection with the London Bridge terror attack, and a number of people have been detained, Scotland Yard has said.
There are no further details at this stage.
A detachment of Islamic State fighters executed yesterday’s London attack.
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