(ITV) Lives are at risk because ministers are dragging their feet with a law requiring venues to improve their security, counter-terror chiefs and victims’ families have warned.
Britain’s former top counter-terror officer Neil Basu joined Figen Murray, whose son died in the Manchester arena bomb attack, in calling on Rishi Sunak to take action to protect the public.
They have written to the PM urging him to approve a “Protect Duty” that would compel all public places to give staff basic security training and draw up emergency terror plans.
In a letter to Number 10, they said [the] terror threat has evolved, with the use of cruder methods such as “knives and cars targeting less protected locations.”
