Summary

  • Party leaders in last day of campaigning across UK

  • Theresa May says human rights laws will not block terror fight

  • Labour's Lyn Brown to stand in for shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who is ill

  • Voters go to the polls on Thursday

Live Reporting

Esther Webber and Marie Jackson

  1. Met Police chief calls for more resources after London attack

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  2. Theresa May talks tough, but track record under spotlight

    The Daily Telegraph

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    According to the Daily Telegraph it was important that the prime minister reacted to Saturday night’s terrorist attack not with the usual platitudes but with a determination that “things need to change”.

    Stephen Pollard commented: "As she rightly said: 'There is – to be frank – far too much tolerance of extremism in our country.'"

    Pollard says she was spot-on in pointing out: “We need to become far more robust in identifying it and stamping it out across the public sector and across society.”

    But in his report for the Telegraph, he says: "The question has to be asked: who was home secretary for the six years from 2010?

    "Mrs May appears to have had a Damascene conversion on this, because as home secretary she acted as the most important blockage in Whitehall against a serious attempt to deal with that precise problem: the hold of Islamism across parts of the public sector and across society."

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  3. General election 2017: Greens and UKIP grilled on terror policy

    Paul Nuttall and Jonathan Bartley

    Security and terrorism policy featured strongly as the Green Party and UKIP leaders faced a Question Time audience.

    UKIP leader Paul Nuttall called for 20,000 more police officers on UK streets, and for a review of funding of mosques in Britain.

    Green co-leader Jonathan Bartley said the Prevent counter-radicalisation strategy should be scrapped.

    The Bristol Q&A was the latest in a series of special shows ahead of Thursday's general election.

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  4. Political leaders will be making the most of 'frantic final moments' of campaign

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Every kind of campaigning "you can possibly imagine" will be taking place in the final days before the 8 June general election, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has said.

    She said there will be a "national air war", with all the leaders of the political parties appearing on the stump, giving speeches and "trying to get the best possible shots of themselves on TV".

    SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will be "flying around in a helicopter trying to criss-cross every inch of Scotland", she said.

    "The thing that really counts is the knocking on doors, having conversations with voters who haven't made up their minds," said Laura, who added that party members will follow these up with offers of lifts to polling stations for those marked out as supporters.

    These are the frantic final moments and everything is to play for but we'll see every kind of campaigning you can possibly imagine in the next four days."

  5. London attack: PM's condemnation of tech firms criticised

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    Prime Minister Theresa May has been warned that her promise to tighten regulation on tech firms after the London attacks will not work.

    Mrs May said areas of the internet must be closed because tech giants provided a "safe space" for terrorist ideology.

    Twitter, Facebook and Google said they were investing heavily in the area.

    An internet advocacy group said social media was not the problem, while an expert in radicalisation branded Mrs May's criticism "intellectually lazy".

    Google, which owns Youtube, along with Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, and Twitter were among the tech companies already facing pressure to tackle extremist content, a pressure that intensified on Sunday.

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  6. General election 2017: Security dominates campaigning

    Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa MayPA

    Security is taking centre stage in the election campaign as party leaders call for action to tackle radicalisation after Saturday's London terror attack.

    Theresa May will stress the importance of leadership and urge tech firms to do more to tackle extremist propaganda.

    Labour, the Lib Dems and UKIP are criticising her record on police cuts.

    The campaign was briefly suspended after the London Bridge attack, in which seven people died, but the PM has insisted Thursday's poll will go ahead.

    She will chair a meeting of senior ministers and security chiefs at the government's emergency Cobra committee on Monday morning.

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  7. Election campaigning on Monday

    Good morning and welcome to today's coverage of the general election campaign.

    Following a brief pause in the wake of the terror attack in London on Saturday night, politicians from all the major political parties are gearing up to make the most of the last three days of campaigning before the 8 June poll.

    Policing and security are set to be key themes on the political agenda, along with domestic issues.

    Join us here throughout the day to find out what Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Tim Farron, Nicola Sturgeon have to say in the closing days of the campaign.

    For live updates on the investigation into the terror attack on London Bridge and Borough Market read here.