Those charged with keeping Britain safe from Islamist-inspired terrorism have always been clear that it was a question of when, not if, there would be another attack as I say in The Sun this morning.
The one thing that has surprised the security services about this attack is the age of the terrorist. Up to now, their focus had been on angry young people. No one was planning for a 50 something terrorist.
Our way of life should not change in response to this terrorist attack. But there are things we can do to combat this threat more intelligently.
The security services don’t have the manpower to follow everyone who appears on their radar as the Westminster attacker Khalid Masood did; it takes 12 people to keep one person under close surveillance. But we can help them by locking up some of the more obvious threats.
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