The community has been very much behind the Metropolitan Police after the events of July 7 and 21, and I think this is a very good example of that, |
The second attacks on the 21st of July should not be taken as some indication that the weakening of the capability or resolve of those responsible, |
The threat remains as clear and manifest as it has ever since last July. |
There is a Pakistan connection. But what we expect to find at some stage is that there is a clear al Qaeda link because the four men who are dead are in the category of foot soldiers. |
These allegations strike to the heart of the integrity of the police and integrity of the Met and I fundamentally reject them. There is no cover-up. |
This is not the B-team. These weren't the amateurs. They made a mistake, they made one mistake. We are very, very lucky. |
We don't know if there is a fifth man, or a sixth man, a seventh man, |
We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior on impressionable young people and if there is evidence, something should be done about it, |
We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior, and if there is evidence, something should be done about it. |
We made a small number of administrative changes, |
We will be monitoring the development in Egypt very carefully, and if it's necessary we will send officers there, or we will seek extradition or whatever other processes are necessary. |
What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing. |
Where does resignation end? Of course, it might end fairly soon. |