Speaker 1: Mr Speaker, what we have witnessed in Manchester and in London are the depraved actions of murderers intent to tear our country apart. But each act of hate has been met by overwhelming defiance. In Borough Market recently I saw stallholders dishing out olives into plastic pots, shoppers searching for delicious treats and tourists flicking through guidebooks in the shadow of the Shard. Rather than being divided by recent violence, people seemed even closer together. We should follow that example of the traders and shoppers of Borough Market. What terrorists want is for us to fear and to turn in on one another. But we will never give terrorists what they want. We will stand together and we will make the point that terrorists will never win, that our values, our country, our unity will prevail. I commend this statement to the House. Diane Abbott

Speaker 2: On this side of the House, we are grateful to the Home Secretary for her statement, and I would like to offer our condolences to all the victims and their families of the Westminster, Manchester, London Bridge and Borough Market attacks and most recently Finsbury Park. Thirty-six innocent people dead, 150 people hospitalised, too many families where children or parents will never come home, and too many people, particularly children, who have seen sights which they may never be able to unsee, and whole communities traumatised. We also on this side of the House want to commend all of the emergency services, including police, fire, British Transport Police and NHS staff, for their swift actions, running towards danger, coming in off shift, which undoubtedly prevented worse injuries and saved lives. I would just like to say a word about the imam at the Finsbury Park mosque. This was an imam who put himself at risk to protect and defend the alleged assailant who had driven over so many people outside the mosque, and I believe that this imam exemplifies the best of the values of Islam in relation to peace and justice, but also the best of British values. I would also like to say about the community around the Finsbury Park mosque. I was there this week, and I met people of all faiths, Christian leaders, Jewish leaders, including my constituents, Rabbi Gluck and Rabbi Pinter, and, of course, Muslim leaders, working together to heal the community and take the community forward. I believe the way that multi-faith and inter-community cooperation is working in practice in that area of London shows us the way forward in the end, in the long run, in contesting the ideology of fear and violence and terror. The variety of these attacks and their different type and varied background of perpetrators reveal that we face multiple threats. No single type of person and no single community is the sole source of these attacks. We all face these attacks, and we must all face them together. Of course, the blame for these attacks lies solely with the perpetrators and any murderous supporters and enablers they may have. But it is reasonable for this House to say that the role of government is to secure the safety of our citizens, and it is reasonable for the House to ask, has everything been done that could reasonably have been done?