Watch: Andrew Neil’s This Week monologue – ‘the time for rhetoric is over’

In the aftermath of recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Nice, the BBC’s This Week has kicked off with a speech from Andrew Neil on the tragedies — and the ‘jihadi johnnies’ responsible. Last night, in the wake of the Manchester Arena terror attack which left 22 people dead, Andrew Neil adopted a different tone — as he said ‘the time for rhetoric is over’:

‘I won’t repeat a version of the remarks I made on this programme in the wake of the Paris and Westminster attacks, though I know some of you were hoping that I would.

They apply with equal force to what happened on Monday night – even more so, since that involved the deliberate slaughter of the young.

But perhaps the time for rhetoric is over, and we need to concentrate on what we’re going to do about it.

We condemn the barbarity, naturally; our hearts go out to those killed and maimed, the pointless, dreadful loss of life, of course.