Hello my name is David Runseman and this is Talking Politics.

I'm joined this week by Helen Thompson, Glenn Ramwala and Chris Brook.

We're recording as we always do on Wednesday morning.

So we're about 36 hours actually, less than 36 hours after the terrorist attack in Manchester.

People will be hearing this another 24 hours after now.

The election campaign is still suspended.

I don't think we know if it's going to resume tomorrow, possibly on Friday.

It will have to resume soon.

But overnight the state of terrorist alert went up another level.

We're not in the business of trying to talk in detail about individual terrorist attacks.

That's not what we do.

I don't think we're in the business of speculating about what it means for the election.

I think that would be inappropriate but also just futile.

No doubt when this election is over, people will look back on the campaign and they will see that there was a break point and then maybe there will be quite a lot of speculation about did it impact on how people voted.

I suspect that will still be a mistake. I think it's very hard to know.

But the campaign will resume soon and we were planning this week to talk about in broad terms how it had gone for the two main parties and the emerging dynamics of it.

I think we should still talk about that.

Obviously it's framed by the current situation and we can touch on that too if it seems relevant.

So to go back to what the campaign looked like at the start of this week, Mrs May wasn't in trouble but she was having a big wobble.

That's the word that's often used.

She just revised her manifesto commitment on social care.

The polls, as we trust the polls, were moving somewhat. The gap was narrowing. It usually does in an election campaign.

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