UK Election: Theresa May toughens stance on terrorism ahead of key election

Terrorism is likely to be one of the top priorities in this year’s election as the country remains in shock after suffering two terrorist incidents within a month. The last one came this week, where three extremists rammed a van on the crowds at high speed on the London Bridge and then came out with knives attacking people. Seven people were reportedly killed with around 50 more injured.

With one of the most important elections in the UK history up for this week on 8th June, the Conservative candidate for the Prime Minister, Theresa May has toughened her stance on terrorism and vowed to take actions even if they defy human rights laws. Prime Minister May has said that she will make it easier to deport foreign terror suspects and will extend existing laws that restrict the freedom of British suspects on whom authorities have enough evidence to know that they present a threat, but not enough evidence to prosecute them in full in court: “When I stood on the steps of Downing Street after the London attack I said enough is enough and things have got to change…….We need to take on the ideology that unites and motivates the perpetrators of these attacks……We should do even more to restrict the freedom and the movements of terrorist suspects when we have enough evidence to know they present a threat, but not enough evidence to prosecute them in full in court……And if human rights laws get in the way of doing these things, we will change those laws to make sure we can do them……..If I am elected as Prime Minister on Thursday, I can tell you that this vital work begins on Friday.”

It is not clear whether this toughening of stance will do her any good or not as her opponent Jeremy Corbyn has been able to gain support for linking these terrorist attacks to foreign interventionist policies of the UK, which have been pursued for years.