My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with those affected by the Westminster attack.

A policeman, Keith Palmer, went to work yesterday and never returned home. He died defending our way of life and our democracy.

Today, it was important that Parliament sat and that we all got on with our lives as usual.

In doing so we show that terrorists will never win.

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