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the streets and key roads leading to the Palace of Westminster still

closed this afternoon. You're watching BBC news.

This is BBC News. I'm Ben Brown live at Westminster. As the Prime

Minister says the man behind the terror attack here was British-born

and known to the authorities. The flag over Parliament is flying

at half-mast this afternoon, as the Queen expresses her son is for all

those affected. The Prime Minister has been shaken colleagues in the

chamber of the House of Commons. -- the Queen expresses her sympathies.

What I can confirm is the man was British-born and some years ago he

was once investigated by MI5 in concerns over violent extremism. One

of the victims of the attack has been named as Aysha Frade. She was

reportedly on her way to pick up her children from school when she was at

the macro struck by gear car's car on West bridge.

I am Annita McVeigh out by Scotland Yard. Kelly is coordinating the

investigation have arrested eight people, Paul-macro of them in

Birmingham. And police have been searching the clean as their

murdered colleague is named as geeky Keith Palmer. One colleague paid an

emotional tribute to his friend from his days in the military. He was a

strong, professional public servant. And it was a delight to meeting here

again only a few months after being elected.

Families continue to mourn their dead.

The police have made their first arrest in connection with the

attack, which left four people dead, including the perpetrator. Grades

are being carried out overnight in Birmingham and London and eight

people in all have been arrested, at least four in Birmingham. Theresa

May has confirmed the suspect was once investigated by MI5 over

concerns they had about violent extremism. She also said that he was

not part of the current intelligence picture, described him as a

peripheral figure. The Queen has led tributes to those impacted by

yesterday's events. In a statement released by Buckingham Palace in the

last three minutes, Queen Elizabeth said...

Aysha Frade has been named as one of the two people killed when the

attacker targeted pedestrians walking on Westminster Bridge. PC

Keith Palmer was stabbed by the suspect at the entrance of the

Palace of Westminster, and altogether 29 people are still in

hospital this afternoon, including seven who we are told are

The House of Commons was in sombre reflective mood this morning. In

memory of those who lost their lives in yesterday's attack and of all of

the casualties of that attack. We shall now observe a minute's

silence. Sfli Yesterday an act of terrorism

tried to silence our downpour si. -- democracy. As generations have done

before and future generation will continue to do, to deliver a simple

message - we are not afraid. And our resolve will never waiver in the

face of terrorism. As the Queen said her thoughts and sympathy were with

all those affected, at New Scotland Yard the police paid tributes to a

fallen colleague, after an attack on the the capital that everyone had

dreaded and trained for. But are determined to overcome. With the

Union flag at half-mast above the Palace of Westminster, the area

around Parliament remains closed to the public. That includes

Westminster Bridge, where shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday, a lone

attacker drove a four-wheel drive vehicle at high speed through a

crowd of people. One victim was catapulted into the Thames as the

car mounted the kerb. The woman was pulled from the river injured but

alive. The vehicle continued at speed, and crashed into the railings

around the Palace of Westminster. The attack ran do the main gate

where he stabbed a police officer, 48-year-old Keith Palmer. As he

continued he was shot as he tried to attack other officers. Amid the

chaos, many commented on the bravery of passers by, MP and emergency

services in giving first aid and tending to the victims. But three

people were killed, including PC Palmer. Also Aysha Frade, a 4

3-year-old from Spain. The attacker has not been named. But he was

British and was once investigated for links to extremist

organisations. Police from several forces launched simultaneous

operations in the Midlands and in London, making eight arrests in

connection with the Westminster attack. The inquiries in Birmingham,

London and other parts are continuing. It is still our belief,

which continues to be borne out by our investigation, that this

attacker acted alone and was inspired by international terrorism.

Investigators are piecing together the exact circumstances of what

happened in and around Parliament. But in London and Westminster

generally, security has been significantly increased, around what

was already one of most heavily protected areas of the cap pal vp --

capital. The importance of security and maintaining the freedoms people

cherish, never more challenging. I'm joined at the police cordon at

Westminster by Lord Carlile. Thank you for being us with. What do you

think of the significance of the fact that the Prime Minister said

this assailant was British born and had been on the Security Services'

radar. We will have to look at the evidence and there are issues about

whether MI5 has sufficient staffing to track people who come on to its

radar for long enough. We have the investigatory powers act to empower

the security services to follow the internet traffic of people

interested in being radicalised. We have to see fit was sufficient. She

said he was a peripheral figure, the Security Services cannot track

everyone. No and they make judgments and make judgments on the whole. The

Security Services are often then sung heros who keep the public safe

and they will be examining what occurred and looking at the

perpetrator and asking the Government for the resources they

need. What has been demonstrated is that there is a real severe threat

and we must protect the public, not just Parliament, but the public from

this kind of threat. Because it was members of public as well as a much

loved police officer who suffered yesterday. An attacker using a car

and knives, so hard to stop. And to get intelligence on. Yes, things

have changed a lot, at one time we were looking at improvised

electronic explosive devices, now it is cars and knives. It is much more

difficult to detect that kind of event, because it is so simple to

perpetrate. Do you think there needs to be changes in legislation? On the

face of it no, I think anti-terror legislation is strong and complete

and we may have to look at the way it is applied and the extent to

which the radicalising sites are taken from the internet. It is right

to say that over 50,000 such sites were removed by the British

authorities in the last two quarters, so the Government's staff

are working hard at this. But it may that more can be done. The public,

communities, must be more vigilant than they have been, as this event

has shown. Thank you. Let's go to our assistant political editor

norman Smith who is in the palace Palace of Westminster and was

listening to that debate. Very dignified and an agreement on all

sides it was important for MPs to sit today, just the day after the

attack to show they wouldn't be cowed by terrorism. Yes, it was

clear that many MPs made a real effort to make sure they were in the

chamber to cancel trips away, as a visible symbol of defines. --

defiance. But we have been getting more detail about events yesterday

and the BBC understands that the attacker was shot dead by one of the

Defence Secretary's security detail. That would fit in, it has not been

confirmed, but that would #23i9 with -- fit with what we know from

yesterday, because MPs and the ministers and the Prime Minister

were voting as the attack took place. They would have been going

along, many of them at the back of palace yard through t area, many MPs

were told they were told to get down. We know it was a plain clothes

officer who shot the attacker. Now it seems it was part of Defence

Secretary's own security detail. I stress that has not been confirmed,

but what is what we understand. That would seem to fit in what appears to

be a likely possibility. Elsewhere we are getting more details about

the Monday himself -- man himself and we know, because the Prime

Minister told us he is a British national and he had xom to attention

of the -- come to the attention of security forces understanding but s

but he was a peripheral figure and not part of their current

investigations and was not seen as an immediate threat. But I imagine

that will be one area that people will want to look at. In terms of

mood, it was captured by a Conservative MP, James Cleverley,

who knew PC Keith Palmer as a former colleague in the artillery regiment.

He seemed close to tears as he urged Mrs May to consider some sort of

recognition, I assume a medal for PC Palmer. There was calms for some

sort of monument to recognise his courage and bravery. But you know

there was a common theme apart from the sense of defiance that democracy

will not be cow and that was the plea for people not to react and

respond to those seeking to divide different communities. Thank you

very much. Norman Smith there. The police are urging anyone with any

information at all about the events here yesterday to get in touch with

them and members of public being asked to call the anti-terrorist

hotline. It is there on screen. That is the same number if people

want to report anything else suspicious they have spotted. We

leave viewers on BBC1 who will get more detail from Westminster in the

one o'clock news. The flag flying at half-mast over

Westminster, where MPs have been meeting in that very sombre session,

sombre debate and listening to the Prime Minister and agreeing they

have to stand firm against terrorism. Meanwhile police continue

their investigations into exactly what happened yesterday, and who was

this man behind it. Let's go now to Annita McVeigh, who is at the

headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, new Scotland Yard, very

close to where the attack took place here at Westminster.

Thank you. Sombre moments here earlier today as well, and minute's

silence in memory of PC Keith Palmer in front of the eternal flame which

is just behind me here, the eternal flame at new Scotland Yard which

commemorates those who have lost their lives in the service of the

force, and just after that minute's silence the acting commissioner of

the Met, Craig Mackey, spoke briefly to the gathered media. He said that

no matter how much he and his colleagues had prepared for possible

terrorist attacks through a variety of scenarios, for members of the

force and the public nothing could prepare them for the reality of what

had happened yesterday, and he repeated the appeal to the public

that if they have any concerns at all to approach an officer and talk

to them. He said the police are the public and the public are the

police. A motion as well as we have been hearing inside the Commons, MPs

have spoken about their thoughts and feelings on the events of yesterday,

and we heard from James Cleverly, the MP for Braintree, a friend of 25

years standing of PC Keith Palmer. The two had served in the Royal

Artillery together and this is what he said.

I would like to turn for a moment of PC Keith Palmer who I first met 25

years ago as Gunnar Keith Palmer at headquarters battery 100 Regiment

Royal Artillery. He was a strong, professional public servant. And it

was a delight to meet him here again only a few months after being

elected. Would my right honourable Friend the Prime Minister, in

recognition of the work that he did and the other police officers and

public servants here in the house do, consider recognising his

gallantry and sacrifice formally with a posthumous recognition?

Some breaking news coming to us, we are hearing from the so-called

Islamic State's news agency that it is claiming this attack. One might

say that they would do that, but this is coming from the so-called

Islamic State news agency, claiming that attack. Of course, what we have

heard from the police here is that they believe the individual who

carried out the attack in Westminster yesterday was acting

alone but inspired by international terrorism. We will discuss that

further in a minute. First, let's go to Birmingham, where four of the

eight arrests so far carried out by police have been made and our

correspondent Phil Mackie is there. Bring us up-to-date with what is

happening. As you can see, this is where a lot

of attention has been focused over the last 12 hours or so because

events began to unfold at 11pm last night on the busy Hagley Road, one

of the main routes into Birmingham, four lanes of traffic behind the

camera that you cannot see, that was completely sealed off, armed

officers jumped out of the card and went into this flat here, the brown

ball behind me. Everybody in the shops and restaurants along here, it

would have been quite busy year even at 11 beyond, they were kept on

lockdown for a couple of hours and later on they saw three men being

taken out of here, even after that in the small hours they saw boxes of

evidence being brought out. In the last 20 minutes or so we have seen

this security cordons go up and we are expecting officers that we know

are still in their carrying out forensic investigation is likely to

come out with more boxes of evidence in the near future. We still haven't

had any official confirmation that what is going on here is related to

what happened in Westminster yesterday, but all inquiries are

being referred to Scotland Yard, it is not an investigation being led by

West Midlands Police, and it has to be more than a coincidence, it

certainly appears that this is one of those key addresses that officers

investigating those terrible attacks nearly 24 hours ago will have been

focusing on. I spoke to one or two of the people

who lived in the flat next door, they talk about being frightened

hearing the shouting and seeing armed police but it is the kind of

area with a transient population, lots of flats, people don't

necessarily live here for long so nobody could really tell us who

lived in those flats and what happened to them and where they are

from. We are hearing more information

coming in about various pieces of police activity, but let me just ask

you about the reports that the car that was used in this attack was

printed in the West Midlands, what can you tell us about that?

It was thought originally that the car used in the attack on the

Westminster Bridge, that ran into people there, had been hired from a

rental company, Enterprise, in soluble. Enterprise has confirmed it

was one of their cars involved in the attack but it definitely was not

rented from Soliola. I don't necessarily know where that came

from -- from Solihull. They have expressed their condolences, they

said that as soon as they saw the number plate on one of the images

online, they verified it and are informed the authorities

straightaway and they are assisting the police with their investigation.

OK, thank you for that. Just a reminder of the breaking news in the

last few moments, the so-called Islamic State newsagency is claiming

this attack in Westminster, although just to remind you police here are

working on the basis that the individual who carried out that

attack was working alone but inspired by international terrorism,

but of course they are investigating what his associations might have

been, what preparation went on in the lead up to this attack. Just

also a reminder that we have heard in the last short while reports that

it may have been one of the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon's personal

protection officers who shot the attacker yesterday. With me now to

discuss the latest development is our home affairs correspondent

Daniel Sandford. First of all, what do we know so far about whom this

attacker may have been? He is a person that it turned out

was known to the police and security service, MI5, he had been on the

periphery of an investigation some years ago, I understand. It looks as

if he wasn't actually charged in relation to that investigation but

certainly the way that the Prime Minister put it in the House of

Commons earlier today, he was no longer part of the current

intelligence picture, as it were he had drifted off the radar, having

been on the radar. There is still a working assumption that he was, in

carrying out this attack -- he was carrying out this attack on his own,

nonetheless eight people have been arrested over quite a large area of

England and Wales, four in Birmingham, the other four it is not

quite clear that there has been police activity in Wales, Surrey,

Sussex, parts of west London, so it is a wide operation. Police have

been speaking to people who knew this man well to see if they had any

information of how he got involved in doing this. The claim of

responsibility by Islamic State, the police will not pay a great deal of

attention to that because they already were working on the Sumption

that this was an Islamist inspired attack and what they really want to

know is who may have been helping him on the ground here, not who may

have been the ideologue or contact he had overseas, that will come

further down the line. What is difficult for the police is

that this is a low-tech attack, so many people have access to knives

and cars, it is difficult to think about how they might combat this

sort of incident? In some ways you might think the

protections that there were the parliament worked reasonably well,

the man did not get more than a few yards inside the perimeter of

parliament, he had to break through the first ring, which she did with

some success, unfortunately took a police officer's life in doing that,

but then this plainclothes officer with a handgun and shot him dead and

the attack was over. But of course the thing we have seen over the last

few years was what he had done before that, with his vehicle, which

actually caused much more carnage. I should say the Westminster Bridge,

where that carnage took place, was a complete crime scene yesterday,

massive amounts of evidence gathering going on for any future

inquest or trials, is anybody else was ever to be implicated in the

attack, but this morning what we are seeing is it is being cleaned, road

sweeping machines are out there, it is being prepared for reopening, so

that first initial evidence gathering stage, certainly on

Westminster Bridge, appears to be over, we are now in the state of,

who are his contacts, what kind of communications did he have, what, if

anything, did anybody else no year in the country and that is where the

focus of the investigation is now moving, from the basic evidence

gathering that was taking place yesterday.

A complex operation, thank you so much.

Of course, 24 hours a day, every day of the year the men and women of

Metropolitan Police are protecting London and people in this city, that

job continues today at the same time as this massive investigation goes

on and also of course as they come to terms with the loss of one of

their own in the line of duty. Ben, back to you.

We know that 40 people were injured in the attack yesterday, many of

them still in hospital, some of them critically ill and fighting for

their lives, being treated at a number of hospitals, St Thomas is

just across the river where doctors ran out of the hospital to treat

people on Westminster Bridge, also Kings College Hospital and Saint

Mary's Hospital in central London. Our correspondent Fiona London is

there, what is the latest? We are about 2.5 miles from

Westminster Bridge and if you can see behind me the police riot vans

and cars because there is a real presence here still today, and if I

take you inside, in the reception, you might be able to sleep through

the glass doors there are two police officers on guard, earlier there

were eight, searching bags as people went in. If I draw your attention to

the poster, they clearly have a control room in the hospital. The

hospital trust have confirmed they are treating patients here who were

involved in the attack yesterday. We spoke to a patient earlier who was

at the hospital just before the attack. He told us he was in a and B

and was asked to move into a ward because he said he was told injured

police officers were on their way to the hospital. This is Martin

Galloway. I arrived here, I can't remember

the time, about 2pm or 3pm and they said a police officer had

been injured and they didn't have any beds so they moved me

to the second floor. We know that three police officers

were injured on the bridge, whether they are here, we don't yet know.

Thank you very much, sorry about the sound on that report there from St

Mary's Hospital. Joining us now is the former Tory

shadow homeland security Former MP as well. I think I'm right

in saying that you carried out a review of security around the Palace

of Westminster I think after the Mumbai attack, so do you think

security needs to be improved or at least looked at again around the

Palace of Westminster in the wake of what happened here? The inquiry was

actually a national inquiry looking at a much bigger targets than simply

the Palace of Westminster, but you are right, we did look at the

security because of the high-value nature of the House of Commons. One

of the things we were very concerned about and which we didn't feel we

were properly prepared for was a mass attack, a dismounted infantry

style attack we have seen in places like Mumbai and other places like

that, however we did conclude the most likely form of attack was a

so-called lone wolf attack. This was partially informed by what happened

to Fusilier Lee Rigby some years ago and now there are many parallels

with what happened yesterday. The trouble is, the conclusion that we

came to, the lone individual operating with a low value vehicle,

weapon, and knife and a car, very, very hard to stop unless you

completely closed down Parliament Square and the Houses of Parliament

and make it impossible for vehicles to come through and every individual

is searched. Again, our conclusion was, were we willing to do that? No,

of course not. The point about terrorism is that it terrorises and

changes the nature of everyday life. We, for better or worse, live in a

democracy and therefore our representatives have got to be

accessible to their constituents. You cannot do that if you are going

to live in a permanent state of terror. Quite apart from which, it

also demonstrates to the terrorists that they are having an effect. We

concluded that was a price we were not willing to pay.

In your view now, you don't think really any substantial changes in

the security setup around Westminster? Be in no doubt that

there are all sorts of measures which are already in place inside

Westminster which will protect the state, protect the palace and those

people that walk in and out. The thing I do think is important that

the Government has not addressed is a public information campaign that

people must be alerted, must be sensitised to the fact that these

sorts of individuals are among our community, they do mean of harm and

we have to keep our eyes and ears open. Think back a few years to when

the Irish republican army were carrying out bombings and the like

in central London. There was never any hesitation there full

organisations like yours to say to people, there is a threat, be

careful, be alert, this is what to look out for. We must not allow

ourselves to be strangled by political correctness on this. We've

got to recognise there is a threat, we've got to alert people to it and

sensitise themselves to it. If every person out there is knowledgeable,

informed, capable of imparting information, it will make the

terrorists' job so much more difficult.

Very good to talk to you, thank you for your time, Patrick Mercer,

former Conservative MP. Let me show you the scene at Westminster, where

the flag is flying at half-mast over the Palace of Westminster. In memory

of those who died in the horrific attack here almost 24 hours ago. The

streets and roads around the Palace of Westminster leading to Parliament

Square, many of them still closed off right now because of course it

is a crime scene, police still with a lot of investigative work to do,

particularly along the Westminster Bridge and around the Palace of

Westminster, where the stabbing of PC Keith Palmer took place.

That debate with Theresa May telling MPs today we are not afraid. Our

resolve will never waver in the face of terrorism. I am joined here at

the police cordoned with Jonathan Reynolds, Labour MP. You were in the

house yesterday and so was your two-year-old child in the Commons

Nursery, is that right? I was actually coming back into

Parliament. I was rushing to get in. As I tried to get in there was a

crowd of people coming out of the Westminster entrance. People were

talking about gunfire. I think a lot of people who work in Westminster

have thought about what might happen if there was a security incident. I

wanted to be with him but I was not in the estate so I tried to get in

from the Whitehall side. I got into the building to be with him. When

the news broke I was able to tell my wife I was with him. We are seeing a

picture of you with him on our screen. You must have been very

worried at the time? Very worried. It was not clear what had happened.

People evacuated in different parts of the estate. I could see something

out of the window which was a pretty bad situation. And that side of the

estate on Westminster Bridge Road and you could tell it was very

serious and the news came forward that a police officer had been

injured. People did not know how serious that was. There was huge

concern that the incident was over. I wanted to be with him. Some

colleagues had to be separated for the duration of the lockdown which

is of huge concern but it was nice to be there.

The children were great. They knew something was not right. It is a

reminder that Westminster is a community, a village and their

families there. Parliament needs to be a place where a lot of people can

come in. I had some constituents down that I was hoping to see. Some

councillors came down. I will have to persuade them to come down in

future. It has to be a place to support the work that goes on there.

People do have children with them sometimes and it is very difficult

in that sense. That is what people should remember when they talk about

Westminster. It is not just about politicians, it is a much bigger

place than that. And the message from the

Prime Minister and all the MPs taken part in the debate this morning was

very much the work has to go on as normal? It is very important that

Parliament was sitting today. I am looking forward to getting home to

Stalybridge tonight. I thought the Prime Minister's statement, the

Leader of the Opposition and Angus Robertson from the SNP were all

absolutely correct in what they said. It was the right tone. I have

seen some comments from around the world that somehow London is closed

or frightened and that is not the case at all. This place is open.

There are people going about their daily business in the British way

that we do that. And the public gallery in the Commons is open.

Having been through the trauma yesterday, in which you said you

were so worried about your child, but should security around the

Palace of Westminster be increased or at least reviewed? After an

incident like this, the response will be properly considered, but if

you look at what we know so far, the assailant clearly determined, did

not breach the perimeter, did not get into the building, he stopped

passed power edge -- palace gates. There has been a significant

strengthening of the estate in recent years in terms of the threat

from vehicles and that will be something that will come out in the

evidence as well. We should not jump to conclusions. There will have to

be a reviewed response to it. The security has to be hearing

Parliament but any day my constituents can come in and anyone

can come into the lobby of Parliament for an event. Parliament

is not the votes and the debate, it is people from every parts of the

country coming together to represent all bits of that country and that

has to be the basis of it. It is a balance that has to be got right and

I think the balance is on the main the right one. The staff are

wonderful, not just looking after the business of Parliament, when

they see us with our children coming in, they are so friendly to them.

You see people stopping for selfies and wanting pictures of Big Ben with

the police and they are magnificent in their response to all that. That

was what was going on yesterday. It was really quite traumatic day

looking back at it, and I think your other child was drawing pictures of

the House of Commons? Whenever you have to bring your kids and people

are so kind to them. I think people recognise as well it was not always

a family friendly place. Some older colleagues would not have had that

experience but the staff are wonderful, they love to the children

and the children love to see all of that as well. My six-year-old drew

some thank you cards for the police and the nursery staff as well. Thank

you so much for talking to us, Jonathan Reynolds MP. Very good to

talk to. A former neighbour of one of the victims's who was attacked

has been speaking to the BBC. She was a lovely girl, a lovely mother,

a lovely wife. She was just a lovely person with two lovely children. Two

lovely, lovely girls. How are these children? They have lost their

mother. You leave your kids to take them to school, you go and pick them

up and this happens to you. I am in shock. I cannot believe it. I think

I have to go win. A neighbour of Aysha Frade who died in the attack

yesterday in the attack on Westminster Bridge. There have been

messages of support and solidarity from Britain -- for Britain coming

from all over the world. We have heard from Jean-Claude Yunker who

was attending celebrations in Brussels, it is one year since the

Brussels attacks when he heard of the attacks and he has been giving

this reaction. I was attending commemoration ceremonies in Brussels

because we had these attacks. Yesterday, one year ago. And while I

have been there, I was informed that the attacks took place in London and

I was shocked. Shocked because one has to be shocked. And shocked

because again and again, we are hit by this kind of event. I am admiring

really the resilience of the city of London and of the British and I will

have a call today with the Prime Minister.

Jean-Claude Juncker there. Let's now talk to the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall

who joins me at the police cordoned as the police investigation

continues, what are your thoughts after the attack yesterday? I think

obviously sadness. I think it is an appalling act of terrorism. My heart

goes out to the families who have lost loved ones and I hope for a

swift recovery for those who are in hospital as a result of this madness

yesterday. Do you think there needs to be changes to security in

Westminster and around the country? Quite possibly in Westminster, given

that all that was needed for this terrorist attack to take place

yesterday was at Hyundai four by four and a couple of kitchen knives.

It was not as if the guy had a machine gun or anything like that,

it was pretty basic, so I think maybe security does need to be

improved. We have heard the Prime Minister saying we are not afraid.

MPs have been sitting. Was that a demonstration of defiance in your

view? Absolute defiance. I have to say I don't think this was a

coincidence that this attack took place a year to the day after the

Brussels attacks which European Parliament representatives were

involved in. There is a cancer within our community in our country

which has to be cut out and dealt with. Whether that is calling on the

Muslim community to do more to cut this cancer out, whether it is

ensuring that those 800 British citizens who are fighting for ice is

out in Syria and Iraq are allowed back in this country, or indeed down

the line, whether the government goes down the route of banning Saudi

funded mosques. Quite frankly, Saudi Arabia spread radicalisation around

the world. The man, the assailant, was known to be born in this

country. That is what the Prime Minister said. He had been on the

security services radar a while ago but was judged now to be on the

periphery, what do you think are the indications of that. The question

will be asked if the security services should have continued to

follow this man will stop he will be described as a loan Wolf. Lone

Wolves are never really lone wolves. There will be people in the

community who knew he had been radicalised. People should stand up

and those who were involved should be brought to justice. We know the

police and MI5 cannot track everybody who has ever been on their

radar. There are limits to their manpower and resources. There are,

and the cuts to the police force are disgrace. They should not be any

cuts to the security services because we are living in a dangerous

world. It is interesting now that Islamic State have claimed

responsibility, especially considering their prospects in last

year said if you cannot get hold of a machine gun, the way to commit

terror attack is to get hold of a car or get hold of a knife and that

is what happened here yesterday. Although the Prime Minister said

they are not going to raise the terror threat level, it is severe

but they do not think any other attack is imminent, is that right? I

will trust the Prime Minister on this. She was the Home Secretary for

a number of years and she obviously knows things that are identical. I

will say we did expect this to happen at some point. It was never a

case of if, if it was always the case of when. Whenever we have this

cancer in our society of radical Islam, it will happen again. It

needs to be sorted out, it needs to be cut

out of our society altogether and I hope the government start working on

this quickly. You are talking in simplistic terms of cutting out a

cancer. It is not that easy, surely? Is not easy but the Muslim community

will know who these people are living amongst them. They need to

step up to the plate and report them to the police as soon as possible.

The government need some stringent action now. The first thing I would

do is to ban the Saudi funding of mosques in this country. Paul

Nuttall, leader of Ukip, thank you for your time. Let's talk to Gordon

Correra, la security correspondent, who has the latest on

this attack in Westminster. -- our security correspondent. What more is

emerging on the attacker? We have had some important developments in

the last hour. We have had IS, the so-called Islamic State, putting out

a statement from its news agency, saying the individual was one of its

soldiers responding to a call to carry out attacks. That does not

necessarily mean they were in touch with him beforehand. This is a form

of language they often used if someone was inspired by them or has

pledged allegiance to them. It is still not entirely clear what that

tells us about the international links but it hits with the picture

we have learned from the authorities beforehand, that this was an

individual linked to internationalist terrorism. The

other significant element was from the Prime Minister, the statement

that the individual who has not been named officially, was on the radar

at one point of MI5. They come up in the periphery of the previous

investigation some years ago, but the authorities are saying that does

not mean they had any intelligence about the attempt to carry out this

attack. Gordon, thank you very much indeed,

our security correspondent there. Back here at Westminster we will

talk to one of the MPs for London, for Hampstead and Kilburn, Tulip

Siddique. Thank you for being with us. You were in the chamber for the

debate on what happened yesterday, it seemed a very sombre mood but

also quite a defiant mood, MPs wanted to show their work will

continue as normal. That's right, it was a resilient debate, talking

about how we want to make sure that we are public servants, we will not

be deterred by acts of terrorism. We were elected by constituents to do a

duty and nothing will stop us from doing that. You saw how the chamber

was packed on a Thursday morning when most MPs will go back to their

constituency, but we felt we wanted to come to Parliament to show the

world it is business as usual. A lot of MPs are talking about security

around the Palace of Westminster and maybe it needs to be looked at, at

the same time they do not want it to become a fortress where they are

kept away from the people who elected them. That's right and

yesterday when we were locked up in the chamber for hours on end, as you

are aware, there were schoolchildren in the Gallery thinking to cheer us

up. They had come because they wanted to see the mother of

Parliament, to see how democracy works, and we cannot stop that, we

have to keep it open for people from across the country and London as

well and back in the chamber today it felt like a real sense of unity,

all the MPs were united in their purpose of serving the country,

serving London and being resilient in the face of adversity. We have

heard from the Prime Minister the attacker, it is believed, was

British-born, on the radar of the security services are few years ago

but was considered a peripheral figure. What are your thoughts? The

Prime Minister talked about how he had committed these acts of -- he

said he had committed these acts of terrorism in the name of Islam. B be

clear he does not speak for the majority of Muslims like myself.

Brendan Cox said something I agreed with, he said this man is no more

representative of the Muslim community at Jo Cox's kilowatt of

the Yorkshire community. This is one individual manipulating religion to

suit his needs and we will not stand for that, and today I have had faith

leaders from across Hampstead and Kilburn come to me and say, let's

work together because we must make sure there is no backlash after this

and we must stay united because we are all Londoners and proud to be

Londoners. Thank you very much indeed, and speaking of Londoners

there is a candlelit vigil this evening at Trafalgar Square, the

mayor have announced, at 6pm for people to come and pay their

respects to those who died yesterday and who were injured as well. The

police investigation quickly getting into full swing right now into

exactly what happened here yesterday, and to try to find out

much more about the man who carried out the attack, who still is not

being named, by the way. Annita McVeigh is at New Scotland Yard for

us. Then, thank you. This is a huge

operation, a very complex one, it is also about reassurance for the

public and are highly visible presence on the streets of London.

We know that six addresses were searched overnight, eight arrests,

four of those in Birmingham, the Metropolitan Police also saying

there has been activity at locations in forest gate in east London, we

also know there was activity in Wales, Surrey and Sussex, in

addition to that activity that we mentioned in Birmingham. The

Assistant Commissioner of the Met, Craig Mackey, spoke outside New

Scotland Yard earlier today, following a one-minute silence in

memory of PC Keith Palmer, the officer who of course was murdered

here yesterday at Westminster. In the Commons there have been many

tributes to PC Palmer and MPs have been talking about their thoughts

and feelings about the events of yesterday. Theresa May told MPs that

the authorities knew the identity of the attacker but hadn't yet released

this information. The man was British-born and had,

some years ago, he was once investigated by MI5 in relation to

concerns about violent extremism. He was a peripheral figure. The case is

historic. He was not part of the current intelligence picture. There

was no prior intelligence of his intent, or of the plot. Intensive

investigations continue. And, as Acting Deputy Commissioner Roly

confirmed last night, our working assumption is that the attacker was

inspired by Islamist ideology. Mr Speaker, we know the threat from

Islamist terrorism is very real, but while the public should remain

utterly vigilant, they should not and will not be cowed by this

threat. As Acting Deputy Commissioner Roly has made clear, we

are stepping up policing to protect communities across the country and

to reassure the public, and as a precautionary measure this will mean

increasing the number of patrols in cities across the country with more

police and more armed police on the streets. Since June 2013, our

police, security and intelligence agencies have successfully disrupted

13 separate terrorist plots in Britain. Following the 2015

Strategic Defence and Security Review, we protected the police

budgets for counterterrorism and committed to increase cross

Government spending on counter terrorism by 30% in real terms over

the course of this Parliament. And over

the next five years we will invest an extra 2.5 billion in building our

global security and intelligence network, employing over 1900

additional staff at MI5, MI6, and GCHQ. And more than doubling our

global network of counterterrorism experts working with priority

countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Mr Speaker,

in terms of security here in Westminster, we should be clear

first of all that an attacker attempted to break into Parliament

and was shot dead within 20 yards of the gate. If his intention was to

gain access to this building, we should be clear that he did not

succeed. The police per row weekly did their job.

Many MPs unable to fully disguise their emotions when speaking in the

Commons today and among those was James Cleverly, the Conservative MP

for Braintree, a long-time friend of the police officer, Keith Palmer,

who was killed yesterday. The two had been in the army together in the

Royal Artillery, they had known each other the 25 years, this is what he

had to say. I would like to turn

for a moment of PC Keith Palmer, who I first met 25 years ago

as Gunner Keith Palmer at Headquarters Battery 100

Regiment, Royal Artillery. He was a strong,

professional public servant. And it was a delight to meet him

here again only a few months Would my right honourable

friend the Prime Minister, in recognition of the work

that he did and that other police officers and public servants

here in the house do, consider recognising his gallantry

and sacrifice formally Well, we have learned today that the

attacker was known to MI5, that he was an individual who had been, we

are told, on the periphery of a previous investigation in the past

but hadn't been on the radar in recent times, so we are waiting to

learn more about who this individual was. The Prime Minister has said

that the authorities do know his identity but are waiting, for

reasons we haven't been told yet, to reveal that identity. They of course

are looking into this individual's background, what his preparations

might have been, whose his associates were, and we do expect to

hear more about that later today, as of course this huge investigation

continues while at the same time the members of the Metropolitan Police

come to terms with the loss of one of their own in the line of duty.

Coming up here on BBC News, we will have the BBC News at one with Sophie

Rae with in Westminster, but first a look at the weather forecast.

High pressure is approaching to bring many of us unsettled weather

but we have still got rained out there, at the moment a lot of cloud

in Southern counties and damp conditions already today. Rain and

snow further note is petering out so increasing sunshine to end the day

here, but in the south, despite the sunshine, there is a key

north-easterly breeze, that tempers the feel, temperatures a bit below

where they should be at this time of year, and for Devon, Cornwall, parts

of Dorset, the rain will be on and off for much of the

rest of the day and the evening. As you can see heading into the

rush-hour period, Kens and 11s for most, having peaked at 12 or 13, but

it will soon drop under clear skies, particularly across Northern

Ireland, northern England and Scotland. Showery in the Northern

Isles for the rest of today and overnight into tomorrow. A little

bit of sunshine interspersed. But this is how we look at first this

evening and then through the night time period, we keep all the cloud

in southern areas and the breeze, elsewhere the frost will return more

widely, a colder nights than the night just gone, temperatures down

to -5, -6 in the highlands of Scotland, given that we have had a

little rain and snow it could be icy there. Frost across northern part of

England but for parts of Wales, the Midlands and East Anglia they could

still be quite a bit of cloud in the morning and that cloud thickener for

some rain in the south. Unlike today, the breeze should blow that

are way more quickly and allow more such I did come through so on

balance dry across the southern half of the country and brighter for the

day on Friday, and therefore perhaps temperatures will be a little

higher, but still with that keen wind which stays with us over the

weekend. You can see the high pressure is established so it is dry

for the majority but with the wind from the east, we

will always be prone to rid feeling quite chilly, especially in the

south of the country, as the air is still cold. To take a snapshot, high

pressure in charge, this is how the weather looks in our capitals this

weekend, pretty much the same across the board but the east coast might

pick up more cloud into Sunday, but that is more a feature for next

week. For most of us, the weekend is dry, warm sunshine by day, but still

cold nights with some frost and even some folk. -- some fog.