23/03/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are the political commentator Lance Price

and the Deputy Editor of the Express, Michael Booker.

in. We will not go through all of in. We will not go through all of

the front pages, because this is just a quick look at the stories,

well, the one story, of course, dominating all the front pages, and

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

we'll begin. Home-grown Islamist named by police as Westminster

attacker. Known to the intelligence services, but some time ago?

that particular moment, he had sort that particular moment, he had sort

of fallen off the radar and was not part of any current investigation,

but it is interesting, and it brings the question, what makes you part of

a current investigation? If you have previously been known or

investigated for extremist views. It goes to show the real difficulty

that security forces have and monitoring absolutely everyone. I

believe there are something like 3000 or 4000 Islamic extremists that

are known out there that they have been monitoring. And they have to

prioritise. And unfortunately, in this case, someone who has

previously been on the radar has now fallen off the radar, has done this

horrific act, and obviously, questions have been asked of MI5 and

the security services. But at the same time, you have to have a huge

amount of sympathy for them, because how do they stop everything? A lone

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

of this, that's the shocking thing, that anyone can do this. Yes, and

his connections will be part of the investigation. The Daily Express, at

risk of talking to your paper with Lands first of all, Westminster

killer was a teacher. So we are starting to find out more about him.

He wasn't named straightaway, now we know his birth name in addition to

his pseudonym. Yes, we are finding out more about

him, and part of me feels a little uncomfortable about that, because

people who do these things sometimes seek notoriety, and USB careful not

to give that. But there are of course questions about his

background, and his motivation. We know that he has got children, that

he is in that sense, a family man, and are -- and unlikely profile,

perhaps, for someone to commit this atrocity. But that might be one of

the reasons, one of many, that the police did not regard him as an

ongoing threat. Unfortunately, I would say that this even if Michael

was not here, the Daily Express does not seem to be the papers, seeking

to point a finger of blame, suggesting he should have been more

actively investigated in the current circumstances. From what we know him

so far, it is understandable why the police would not do that.

Yes, their work on all convictions in the past, and paper as saying

that is why he converted to Islam, in prison.

Yes, we understand he converted and changed his name while in prison,

and we have heard of this previously without the cases where people who

have been radicalised in British prisons do appear to have their own

record. A lot of prisons have this problem, of Ghetto wising their

prisoners in a radical and played where views are being exchanged, and

people who find themselves in prison go there because they want to fit

in, and they end up being radicalised, and they come out, and

these are the consequences. British attacker fell off MI5 radar,

says the i. But eight people arrested in a number of raids. So

how alone he was in what he did, we are yet to discover.

Yes, and the security experts you have been interviewing all day on

News 24 have made that point quite effectively, that there may be

people who appear to be acting alone, but of course, nobody in life

acts completely alone, and there are very few people that nobody around

them has any hint or suspicion of what they are getting up to. But it

is possible that somebody just decides to tell nobody, to go off

and do something like this, and in that sense, it doesn't appear to

have been a large-scale conspiracy. One of the subheadings here, Kent

born father of three had convictions for violence. This man, Adrian

Helms, was from Dartford in Kent -- Adrian Elms, and also lived at

various times in Rye and Crawley in East Sussex, and Eastbourne in East

Sussex as well. We're told the same man appears to have been convicted

of a knife crime in 2003 in Eastbourne, and that day tallies

with the Met's information about previous convictions. The other

issue as well here is, he was said to have been shot by the protection

officer who was with the Defence Secretary, and that is another

concern, isn't it? Yes, it is a concern, because if he

had not been there just by chance, because the Defence Secretary was

going into Parliament at that time, he could have got even further, and

there could have been even more horror in Parliament yesterday. They

are now looking at beefing up security at Parliament dates and all

around there, and there are now people calling for police in

sensitive locations to be armed, and a lot of people are agreeing with

that at this time. A lot of people are saying there

would be a knee jerk reaction to this. You have spent a lot of time

in Parliament, and you know how heavy the security presence is there

a risk in the bay. The security presence is very heavy,

but some MPs have remarked that perhaps the palace gates, as they

are called, which he went through, the weak link. The fact is that MPs,

ministers, the Prime Minister, are coming through those gates all the

time during the day, and part of keeping them safe is getting them

into the confines of the Palace of Westminster quickly. So it is not a

view solution might just keep the gates shut and have lots of armed

police around. It creates as many problems as it solves.

Having got somebody with a gun, you have still got a human being, so

there is still an element of human error. So even if there had been

people with guns at those gates, you cannot say 100% that you cant stop

everybody. They are not quick to shoot, they?

On the eye, there are thousands of pictures of those people who

gathered in Trafalgar Square this evening for the habitual, but on the

Mirror, there are pictures of people lighting candles, a group of young

people there. Britain's defiant message to vile peddlers of terror

cash evil will not win. And we had Theresa May making a statement to

the House of Commons, saying we need to carry out millions of acts of

normal everyday life. People not put off gathering in large numbers a

stone's throw from Parliament. I think this is a fantastic front

page, and it reflects the best of Britain, and not just Britain, but

countries around the world, respond to incidents like this. We come

together, we don't allow terrorists and extremists to drivers apart, and

the kind of expression that is shown by the big picture there in

Trafalgar Square people come together, but I think even people

sitting at home watching that on the television, you don't have to go

there and actually be there to feel a sense of a country determined not

to allow themselves to fall victim to exactly what the terrorists would

like us to do. I got a sense last night going home

fairly late, went to Liverpool Street At Double Station, A Big

Central London Station. People Still Seem Quite Relaxed, And There Were

20 People Around. Again, This Morning, Foreign Students Have Been

Mixed Up In The Stack, And There Were Plenty Of Those Still Wondering

Around, Feeling Safe In This Country, And They Were Reassured, I

Think, To See A Lot More Police With Guns In Central London This Morning.

And A Quick Look At The Metro. London stands united, head of faith

leave vigil in wake of Westminster carnage. That is our quick look at

the front pages, but we'll be back again from more in-depth look at

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

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