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Political Fix

The aftermath of the Manchester terror attack

Political Fix

Financial Times

Politics, News, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A week in which Britain was shaken. And how Labour and Ukip will tackle terrorism. With George Parker, Sam Jones, Matt Singh and Miranda Green of the Financial Times. Presented by Sebastian Payne.

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I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's

0:44.1

episode we'll be discussing the terror attack in Manchester and the state of the

0:48.5

general election campaign. I'm delighted to be joined by George Parker

0:52.2

the FTE political editor who's at the G7 summit,

0:55.6

Defence and security editor Sam Jones, election analyst Matt Singh,

0:59.6

and political commentator Miranda Green. Thank you all for joining.

1:03.6

Britain was shocked this week as it experienced another terror attack.

1:07.6

On Monday evening, Salmon Abadee entered the Manchester Arena and set off a bomb as an Ariander Grande pop concert was

1:14.2

concluding. 22 were killed and dozens others injured. The security

1:19.1

citizens appeared to have uncovered a terrorist network in Manchester. There have been numerous arrests since them.

1:25.0

The UK's threat level has been raised critical, its highest level, and so does he have been deployed to the streets.

1:31.0

Sam Jones, just to begin, it's obviously these things are very, very hard to predict,

1:35.8

but the security services have been thinking that some kind of attack like this was coming.

1:41.0

The inevitable question is, could more have been done?

1:43.6

In some ways you could say more could have been done, that more resources could have been

1:47.4

thrown at the problem. It's relatively well known inside Whitehall that the security services are

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