{"id":31413,"date":"2017-06-05T05:21:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T05:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=31413"},"modified":"2017-06-05T05:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T05:21:55","slug":"general-election-campaign-resumes-london-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/general-election-campaign-resumes-london-terror-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"General election campaign resumes after London terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGeneral election campaign resumes after London terror attack<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\n\tThe general election campaign is resuming in earnest after Saturday's London terror attack, with the parties setting out their security credentials.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPrime Minister Theresa May will return to her core theme of leadership after being criticised by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over police cuts.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe leaders suspended the campaign after the London Bridge attack, in which seven people died.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Mrs May confirmed the election would go ahead as planned on Thursday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShe will chair a meeting of senior ministers and security chiefs at the government's emergency Cobra committee on Monday morning.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tCorbyn attacks police cuts in terror speech<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLondon attack: Latest updates<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHow terror attack will influence election campaign<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tDowning Street sources said she would deliver a speech as full campaigning restarted, pledging the "leadership" needed to keep the country secure from terrorism, strike a Brexit deal, and manage the economy.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Sunday she called for new measures to tackle extremism, including online, saying in a speech outside No 10 that "enough is enough".<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSecurity firmly on the table<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVoters choose their political parties for all sorts of different reasons.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBut as this strange election hurtles towards its close, the demand of who can keep the country safe is firmly on the table.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Theresa May that doesn't just mean questions over how she would counter extremism if she stays in power.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBut she faces criticism too over the Tories' record on squeezing money for the police.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has repeated his promise to reverse the cuts and slammed the Tories tonight, warning the government could not "protect the public on the cheap".<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also tried to counter perceptions that he is soft on security, including his earlier stance on shoot to kill, which he questioned days after the Paris attack at the Bataclan.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe said, if he were prime minister he would take "whatever action is necessary and effective" to protect the public.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a brief pause, the election campaign is well and truly back, even with a more subdued tone, and with security as its subject.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMr Corbyn declared an end to the pause in Labour's campaign with a speech on Sunday evening attacking the government over police cuts and accusing the government of "suppressing" a report into the foreign funding of extremist groups.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMost of the parties suspended their national campaigns over the weekend, although UKIP's continued, with leader Paul Nuttall saying that stopping would be "precisely what the extremists would want us to do".<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMr Nuttall appeared on a Question Time general election special on Sunday night, as did Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley, with security and terrorism both featuring heavily.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMr Nuttall called for 20,000 more police officers on UK streets, and for a review of funding of mosques in Britain, and Mr Bartley said the Prevent counter-radicalisation strategy should be scrapped.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSource:- http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/election-2017-40154361<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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