London 5 casualties terrorist impact on general election December 1st 4:55
In the center of London, a man cut a pedestrian with a knife and five people were killed or injured. The candidates for the general election held this month temporarily refrained from campaigning and appealed to strengthen security measures. The battle has also been affected.
On the 29th of the month around the London Bridge in central London, a man cut pedestrians one after another with a knife, two men and women were killed, three people were injured, and a man was shot dead by a police officer on the spot it was done.
The man was arrested and convicted nine years ago for attempting a bomb terror, but was released in December last year.
In response to the incident, the ruling and conservative parties and the largest opposition and labor parties announced that they would refrain from the election campaign on the 30th.
On the 30th, Prime Minister Johnson visited the incident and encouraged the police, saying, “Terrorists and other convicted persons should not be released early,” and appealed to strengthen security measures.
One opposition party is increasingly criticizing the police's budget cut by the austerity measures that the Conservative Party continued for many years.
During the last general election in 2017, after a man ran out of a car on the same London Bridge as this site and hit a pedestrian, a terrorist attacked nearby people with a knife and sacrificed eight people. And terrorism countermeasures emerged as an issue in election campaigns.
Following this incident, attention will be paid to whether security measures will be an important issue in the general election scheduled for this month.