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We can and we will come through this difficult time - Reading MP

Reading East MP Matt Rodda has paid tribute to the way his community has responded to the attack.

Mr Rodda told MPs: "Like many other local people I was shocked and deeply upset by the dreadful attack in Forbury Gardens.

"I want to offer my deepest condolences to the families of the three people who died. My thoughts are with them. It is impossible to imagine what they are going through at this time and I am sure all our hearts go out to them."

He added: "Reading is a friendly and peaceful town with a diverse and tolerant community and this whole incident is completely unknown to us, it is something which has never occurred before in our community and as such is deeply upsetting.

"That community solidarity was demonstrated again today when a wide range of different faith and community groups came together to lay flowers at the scene of this dreadful incident and local people also observed a minute's silence.

"I am very proud of the way that our community is pulling together at this difficult time and the way in which local people have been supporting one another. We can and we will come through this difficult time."

'Terrorism is increasing', Tobias Ellwood warns

Tory chairman of the defence select committee Tobias Ellwood warned "we need to understand the wider picture that terrorism is increasing".

Mr Ellwood, who lost his brother in the Bali bombing of 2002, was among the first responders to the Westminster Bridge attack of 2017 when terrorist Khalid Masood ran onto the parliamentary estate, killing PC Keith Palmer.

The MP told the commons: "At the time of the Bali bombing there were 26 proscribed organisations by the Home Office, that number has risen to 86.

"Would she (home secretary Priti Patel) concede that it isn't just a problem for the UK, but we need to look wider afield. The reasons why these things are happening is because there are fanatics working in ungoverned spaces, preying on vulnerable individuals, promoting a false interpretation of Islam.

"We pat ourselves on the back to say we defeated Daesh, but that's only territorially, that ideology lives on and continues to grow. The threat is there and until we address this wider picture, the threat of terrorism in the UK will continue."

Priti Patel commits to speeding up removal of foreign national offenders 

Priti Patel said that the Government has been clear in its approach to speeding up the removal of foreign national offenders from the UK.

Conservative MP Lee Anderson said: "There is something wrong if an individual has come into this country illegally and been granted asylum and then goes on to be a security risk.

"Could (Ms Patel) please tell me what steps her department will be taking to ensure we do not have another instance of a potential terrorist slipping through the net of the security services?"

Ms Patel responded: "We are a free, open, tolerant country and as I've said before on the floor of the House I think we're one of the greatest countries in the world when it comes to giving people the freedom to succeed and get on and live their lives, we offer that opportunity.

"I'm not going to comment on anything to do with the individual, there is a live investigation, but I do want to reiterate of course that when it comes to offenders, foreign national offenders in particular, this Government is absolutely clear in terms of the approach that we are taking to speed up the removal of individuals within the law.

"There are complexities naturally in some cases, in fact many cases, but that's why we are seeing through measures that were outlined in the Queen's Speech earlier on this year and we will continue with our policies and legislation going forward."

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Man arrested on suspicion of stabbing three people to death in Reading was under probation supervision

The Libyan man accused of launching a terror attack that left three victims dead in Reading at the weekend was under probation supervision at the time, The Independent understands.

Khairi Saadallah was released on appeal from HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire just 16 days before the mass stabbing.

He was being supervised by the National Probation Service, which is being handed all offender monitoring under a new system next year, after serving a non terror-related sentence.

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Downing Street briefing - restrictions on those shielding to be lifted

The restrictions on people who are shielding to protect themselves from the coronavirus will be lifted in August, the health secretary Matt Hancock has announced.

For all the latest on the measure, the reaction to it, and the rest of today's briefing, head over to our coronavirus liveblog.

Threat from 'lone wolf' terrorists growing, home secretary warns in wake of Reading attack

Home Secretary Priti Patel has warned the UK faces a growing risk from so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorists.

In the wake of the Reading attack, Ms Patel told MPs the terror threat the UK faced was “complex, diverse and rapidly changing”.

She added: "It is clear that the threat posed by lone actors is growing."

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Conservative MP apologises for failing to register firm director roles as interests

A Conservative MP has apologised in the House of Commons after failing to register his business directorships as interests.

Marcus Fysh, the MP for Yeovil, was found by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to have made three breaches of the Code of Conduct. The Commons Standards Committee later intervened after Mr Fysh did not accept the commissioner's findings.

Mr Fysh was also found by MPs to have "adopted a deprecatory and, at points, patronising tone towards the commissioner and the registrar, which was unacceptable, as were his unfounded questions about their objectivity".

BME groups accuse government of 'importing of US-style voter suppression' to Britain

Anti-racist and BME organisations have warned the government that its plans to require ID at polling stations will lock black and ethnic minority people out of democracy.

In an intervention timed to coincide with Windrush Day, groups including the Runnymede Trust, Hope Not Hate and the Race Equality Foundation said government policy amounted to the "importing of US-style voter suppression to the UK".

Our own Jon Stone has more:

Top civil servant denies discharging 25,000 hospital patients to care homes without coronavirus testing was 'wrong'

A top civil servant has denied the discharge of 25,000 of hospital patients to care homes without testing for coronavirus was “high risk and wrong”.

Up to 20,000 people are believed to have died from infections in care homes in the months since – but Sir Chris Wormald denied the department of health and social care had blundered.

“We believe that we took the right decision based on the right clinical evidence at the time,” he told a committee of MPs.

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