Woolwich Terror Attack: Cobra Meeting Convened
Local MP Nick Raynsford says a soldier from Woolwich Barracks died in the incident. Sky are reporting today’s murder in Woolwich as a politically-motivated Islamist terrorist attack…
UPDATE: BBC’s Nick Robinson reporting that the “People carrying out the attack were of Muslim appearance and cries of God is Great or Allahu Akbar were heard”.
UPDATE II: Met Police statement:
UPDATE III: The PM is expected to cancel his trip in Paris and fly back to London. Boris has cancelled a talk at the LSE to attend the Cobra meeting.
“The account you have is pretty much it. Unpleasant and unhelpful Edinburgh airport baggage man (I gave him my flight and seat no, 18D, at least six times but he said he was busy and would be back shortly); a ludicrously over-reacting transport cop who’d already identified me and made it clear he’d be taking ‘no nonsense’, when I was simply asking for my ‘phone back (the Telegraph is saying i was trying to get back onto the ‘plane, for some reason). I said I’d simply leave and one cop said; ‘best thing’ and the other said ‘not ’til I let you’. I replied pointing out that he wasn’t letting me report my ‘phone missing nor letting me leave. At that point he arrested me with entirely un-necessary physical force. 
“It is extraordinary that at a time when the shortage of primary school places amounts to nothing short of a national crisis that the Government is persisting with the folly of its free school policy. Less than a third of the approved free schools are primary schools; and the overwhelming majority – 45 per cent of the new schools – will be located in London, which by common agreement already boasts the best schools in the country.”
Labour haven’t yet been stupid enough to select 
Paul McCartney is among those involved in Michael Gove’s 102 new free schools approved this morning. A new primary school run by Macca’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Art will presumably take a slightly more old school approach to drum and bass duo Chase & Status’ Will Kennard’s music school in Tower Hamlets. 
Last week a government source said in reference to Afghan interpreters: “What sort of message would it send if these people were bundled into the back of a Chinook and flown out of the country? It would say we don’t think there’s a future.” Phillip Hammond said on the record that he believed “Afghanistan has a future”. This morning the government announced that former Afghan interpreters will be granted asylum after all. 
