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:00:12. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:16. > :00:18.With me are the political commentator Lance Price

:00:19. > :00:23.and the Deputy Editor of the Express, Michael Booker.

:00:24. > :00:28.in. We will not go through all of in. We will not go through all of

:00:29. > :00:33.the front pages, because this is just a quick look at the stories,

:00:34. > :00:37.well, the one story, of course, dominating all the front pages, and

:00:38. > :00:41.we will look in more depth at 11:30 p.m.. The Financial Times is where

:00:42. > :00:46.we'll begin. Home-grown Islamist named by police as Westminster

:00:47. > :00:51.attacker. Known to the intelligence services, but some time ago?

:00:52. > :00:55.that particular moment, he had sort that particular moment, he had sort

:00:56. > :00:58.of fallen off the radar and was not part of any current investigation,

:00:59. > :01:03.but it is interesting, and it brings the question, what makes you part of

:01:04. > :01:07.a current investigation? If you have previously been known or

:01:08. > :01:11.investigated for extremist views. It goes to show the real difficulty

:01:12. > :01:14.that security forces have and monitoring absolutely everyone. I

:01:15. > :01:18.believe there are something like 3000 or 4000 Islamic extremists that

:01:19. > :01:24.are known out there that they have been monitoring. And they have to

:01:25. > :01:27.prioritise. And unfortunately, in this case, someone who has

:01:28. > :01:32.previously been on the radar has now fallen off the radar, has done this

:01:33. > :01:36.horrific act, and obviously, questions have been asked of MI5 and

:01:37. > :01:39.the security services. But at the same time, you have to have a huge

:01:40. > :01:46.amount of sympathy for them, because how do they stop everything? A lone

:01:47. > :01:50.wolf, anyone can get into a car and do what he did. That's the sad fact

:01:51. > :01:53.of this, that's the shocking thing, that anyone can do this. Yes, and

:01:54. > :01:59.his connections will be part of the investigation. The Daily Express, at

:02:00. > :02:04.risk of talking to your paper with Lands first of all, Westminster

:02:05. > :02:08.killer was a teacher. So we are starting to find out more about him.

:02:09. > :02:10.He wasn't named straightaway, now we know his birth name in addition to

:02:11. > :02:15.his pseudonym. Yes, we are finding out more about

:02:16. > :02:18.him, and part of me feels a little uncomfortable about that, because

:02:19. > :02:21.people who do these things sometimes seek notoriety, and USB careful not

:02:22. > :02:27.to give that. But there are of course questions about his

:02:28. > :02:32.background, and his motivation. We know that he has got children, that

:02:33. > :02:40.he is in that sense, a family man, and are -- and unlikely profile,

:02:41. > :02:43.perhaps, for someone to commit this atrocity. But that might be one of

:02:44. > :02:47.the reasons, one of many, that the police did not regard him as an

:02:48. > :02:53.ongoing threat. Unfortunately, I would say that this even if Michael

:02:54. > :03:00.was not here, the Daily Express does not seem to be the papers, seeking

:03:01. > :03:03.to point a finger of blame, suggesting he should have been more

:03:04. > :03:07.actively investigated in the current circumstances. From what we know him

:03:08. > :03:10.so far, it is understandable why the police would not do that.

:03:11. > :03:17.Yes, their work on all convictions in the past, and paper as saying

:03:18. > :03:19.that is why he converted to Islam, in prison.

:03:20. > :03:22.Yes, we understand he converted and changed his name while in prison,

:03:23. > :03:25.and we have heard of this previously without the cases where people who

:03:26. > :03:34.have been radicalised in British prisons do appear to have their own

:03:35. > :03:37.record. A lot of prisons have this problem, of Ghetto wising their

:03:38. > :03:41.prisoners in a radical and played where views are being exchanged, and

:03:42. > :03:44.people who find themselves in prison go there because they want to fit

:03:45. > :03:49.in, and they end up being radicalised, and they come out, and

:03:50. > :03:58.these are the consequences. British attacker fell off MI5 radar,

:03:59. > :04:03.says the i. But eight people arrested in a number of raids. So

:04:04. > :04:07.how alone he was in what he did, we are yet to discover.

:04:08. > :04:10.Yes, and the security experts you have been interviewing all day on

:04:11. > :04:14.News 24 have made that point quite effectively, that there may be

:04:15. > :04:17.people who appear to be acting alone, but of course, nobody in life

:04:18. > :04:21.acts completely alone, and there are very few people that nobody around

:04:22. > :04:25.them has any hint or suspicion of what they are getting up to. But it

:04:26. > :04:29.is possible that somebody just decides to tell nobody, to go off

:04:30. > :04:37.and do something like this, and in that sense, it doesn't appear to

:04:38. > :04:41.have been a large-scale conspiracy. One of the subheadings here, Kent

:04:42. > :04:50.born father of three had convictions for violence. This man, Adrian

:04:51. > :04:55.Helms, was from Dartford in Kent -- Adrian Elms, and also lived at

:04:56. > :04:59.various times in Rye and Crawley in East Sussex, and Eastbourne in East

:05:00. > :05:02.Sussex as well. We're told the same man appears to have been convicted

:05:03. > :05:07.of a knife crime in 2003 in Eastbourne, and that day tallies

:05:08. > :05:13.with the Met's information about previous convictions. The other

:05:14. > :05:20.issue as well here is, he was said to have been shot by the protection

:05:21. > :05:22.officer who was with the Defence Secretary, and that is another

:05:23. > :05:27.concern, isn't it? Yes, it is a concern, because if he

:05:28. > :05:29.had not been there just by chance, because the Defence Secretary was

:05:30. > :05:33.going into Parliament at that time, he could have got even further, and

:05:34. > :05:37.there could have been even more horror in Parliament yesterday. They

:05:38. > :05:42.are now looking at beefing up security at Parliament dates and all

:05:43. > :05:48.around there, and there are now people calling for police in

:05:49. > :05:51.sensitive locations to be armed, and a lot of people are agreeing with

:05:52. > :05:54.that at this time. A lot of people are saying there

:05:55. > :05:58.would be a knee jerk reaction to this. You have spent a lot of time

:05:59. > :06:01.in Parliament, and you know how heavy the security presence is there

:06:02. > :06:05.a risk in the bay. The security presence is very heavy,

:06:06. > :06:08.but some MPs have remarked that perhaps the palace gates, as they

:06:09. > :06:14.are called, which he went through, the weak link. The fact is that MPs,

:06:15. > :06:18.ministers, the Prime Minister, are coming through those gates all the

:06:19. > :06:22.time during the day, and part of keeping them safe is getting them

:06:23. > :06:25.into the confines of the Palace of Westminster quickly. So it is not a

:06:26. > :06:29.view solution might just keep the gates shut and have lots of armed

:06:30. > :06:32.police around. It creates as many problems as it solves.

:06:33. > :06:36.Having got somebody with a gun, you have still got a human being, so

:06:37. > :06:40.there is still an element of human error. So even if there had been

:06:41. > :06:43.people with guns at those gates, you cannot say 100% that you cant stop

:06:44. > :06:48.everybody. They are not quick to shoot, they?

:06:49. > :06:52.On the eye, there are thousands of pictures of those people who

:06:53. > :06:58.gathered in Trafalgar Square this evening for the habitual, but on the

:06:59. > :07:02.Mirror, there are pictures of people lighting candles, a group of young

:07:03. > :07:07.people there. Britain's defiant message to vile peddlers of terror

:07:08. > :07:10.cash evil will not win. And we had Theresa May making a statement to

:07:11. > :07:19.the House of Commons, saying we need to carry out millions of acts of

:07:20. > :07:21.normal everyday life. People not put off gathering in large numbers a

:07:22. > :07:26.stone's throw from Parliament. I think this is a fantastic front

:07:27. > :07:29.page, and it reflects the best of Britain, and not just Britain, but

:07:30. > :07:33.countries around the world, respond to incidents like this. We come

:07:34. > :07:37.together, we don't allow terrorists and extremists to drivers apart, and

:07:38. > :07:41.the kind of expression that is shown by the big picture there in

:07:42. > :07:43.Trafalgar Square people come together, but I think even people

:07:44. > :07:47.sitting at home watching that on the television, you don't have to go

:07:48. > :07:52.there and actually be there to feel a sense of a country determined not

:07:53. > :07:55.to allow themselves to fall victim to exactly what the terrorists would

:07:56. > :08:01.like us to do. I got a sense last night going home

:08:02. > :08:05.fairly late, went to Liverpool Street At Double Station, A Big

:08:06. > :08:09.Central London Station. People Still Seem Quite Relaxed, And There Were

:08:10. > :08:11.20 People Around. Again, This Morning, Foreign Students Have Been

:08:12. > :08:14.Mixed Up In The Stack, And There Were Plenty Of Those Still Wondering

:08:15. > :08:18.Around, Feeling Safe In This Country, And They Were Reassured, I

:08:19. > :08:26.Think, To See A Lot More Police With Guns In Central London This Morning.

:08:27. > :08:30.And A Quick Look At The Metro. London stands united, head of faith

:08:31. > :08:33.leave vigil in wake of Westminster carnage. That is our quick look at

:08:34. > :08:41.the front pages, but we'll be back again from more in-depth look at

:08:42. > :08:43.those headlines at 11:30pm with Lan St Michael. Join us then if you can.

:08:44. > :08:46.Next, the weather.