Golders Green terror attack latest: Suspect named as 45-year-old Essa Suleiman

In his speech, the Prime Minister said incidents such as the attack in Golders Green “keep happening”.

“At moments like these we often say that this is not England, that these attacks are an insult to British values, to British tolerance, to British civility. But these things keep happening, don’t they?”

“And today I will instead say that our values ​​are not a gift passed down from generation to generation.

“They are things we earn through action every day. They come from us.

“Anti-Semitism is a very old hatred, history shows that its roots are deep, it flourishes again when you turn away.

“But too many people in this country underestimate it. They either don’t see it or they don’t want to see it.”

Sir Keir Starmer has said the government is open to learning lessons from its Counter-Terrorism program following the Golders Green attack.

Asked by journalists whether Prevent could keep people safe, he said: “The investigation is obviously ongoing and so we don’t have all the facts.

“Prevent has been reviewed and we have made changes following the Southport attack. We need to be open to learning any other lessons that may be drawn from this investigation, but we are at a very early stage at this point.”

Addressing the nation after the Golders Green attack, Sir Keir Starmer called on all Britons to call out antisemitism in everyday life.

Pledging to do “everything in our power to stamp this hatred out”, he warned that although these attacks are an “affront to British values”, these values ​​“are not a gift handed down”.

“I also call on every decent person in this country to open their eyes to Jewish suffering, Jewish suffering and Jewish fear,” he said at a news conference.

“I call on everyone to come together and fight antisemitism, and I call on everyone to fight for the decent, respectful, tolerant Britain that I and millions of others love, so that our freedom and our values ​​can speak loudly and accurately to a community that can no longer believe in it.”

The Prime Minister warned that anyone who openly promoted images encouraging the killing of Jews was effectively “calling for terrorism”.

And he said those who attended pro-Palestinian marches were standing “with people who are saying ‘Globalize the Intifada,’ who are calling for terrorism against Jews.”

“Of course, we protect freedom of expression and peaceful protest in this country, but if you’re marching with people wearing pictures of paragliders without shouting, you’re respecting the killing of Jews,” he said in a speech in Downing Street.

“If you side with those who say ‘Globalize the Intifada’, you are calling for terrorism against Jews, and those who use this phrase should be prosecuted.

“This is racism, extreme racism, and it has left a minority community in this country frightened, intimidated and wondering if they belong.”

Sir Keir Starmer said he expressed his “sadness and solidarity” with the Jewish community and declared his “determination to take action” but acknowledged the attack was “not a one-off”.

“And so people are afraid, they’re afraid to show who they are in their communities, they’re afraid to go to synagogue and practice their religion, they’re afraid to go to university as a Jew, they’re afraid to send their children to school as a Jew, they’re afraid to tell their colleagues they’re Jewish, they’re even afraid to use our NHS,” he said.

Sir Keir Starmer has promised a series of steps to prevent terrorist attacks on the Jewish community.

“We will strengthen the visible police presence in our Jewish communities. We will increase our investment in Jewish security services,” he said live.

“We will introduce much stronger powers to close down charities that promote anti-Semitic extremism.

“We will prevent hate preachers from entering our country, our campuses, our streets, our communities. [We will] Work with our justice system to expedite sentencing against antisemitic attacks so that there is a stronger deterrent factor, as in riots.

“And we need stronger forces to combat the malign threat posed by states such as Iran, because we know they want to harm British Jews, so we will swiftly implement the necessary legislation.”

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer addresses the nation from Downing Street with an update on the Government’s response to the Golders Green terror attack.