What the papers say: How can we prevent a repeat of the Westminster attack?

Theresa May told MPs yesterday that Britain will not waver in the face of terrorism. She is widely praised for her emotional address in the Commons, in which she said simply: ‘We are not afraid’. But still the question lingers: what can we do to prevent a repeat of Wednesday’s attack?

Theresa May hit precisely the right note in her address to MPs, says the Daily Telegraph, which compares the Prime Minister’s response to that of Margaret Thatcher’s after the Brighton bombing in 1984. Yet while her message is an important one, there are ‘inevitable questions’. The Telegraph says that already we’re following the ‘gloomy familiar aftermath’ to an attack, as it becomes clear that the man responsible – Khalid Masood – was already well-known to police. ‘Should the police and MI5 have kept a closer eye on him?,’ the paper asks. Of course it’s easy to say so after the attack.