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SR: We are joined now by Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry, thank you very much for being with us on the show today. An absolutely horrific attack, we’ve just heard from the Prime Minister who says enough is enough, things need to change. Do you agree with her, do things need to change or should things carry on as normal?

EMILY THORNBERRY: I think that we need to pause and I think that we need to take breath. I think that it’s right not to be involved in party political arguments today, I think that the campaign will start again tonight and we can go from there.

SR: What struck me about Theresa May’s statement was her emphasis on doing things differently in the future. She was talking for example, we can’t pretend that things can continue as they are, we can’t allow safe spaces for terrorists in our communities or on the internet. Do you think she has got the tone right there? What’s your take on this?

EMILY THORNBERRY: I am more than happy to talk about his and have me back tomorrow and I will but I don’t want to talk about it now. What I want to talk about now is the resilience and strength of London and how this is an attack on the very heart of London and what it is that we mean to be as Londoners and how we are an example to the world of multiculturalism. People from all over the world come and live here and we get on well and we need it to stay like that and we need to be strong and resolute. I don't think many Londoners slept very much last night, I certainly didn’t, but it began with the stories of the most extraordinary heroism from our police force. Eight minutes after the call, confronting men in what looked like suicide belts and protecting us. We talk blithely about people being called to public service, I don't know a better example I’ve ever heard. Then we hear about the emergency services picking people up and taking them to hospital and looking after them and London needs to step up and we need to be united as the wonderful community that we are stick together.

SR: I think you are certainly right to emphasise the stories of heroism of which there are many, it’s interesting what you are saying about London being an example of multiculturalism, it seems again quite different from Theresa May’s statement where she is talking about how there is too much tolerance of extremism in our country, do you agree with her there?

EMILY THORNBERRY: I’m really sorry to be boring about this but I think there is a right time to discuss this and it’s not today. There are people waking up…

SR: Do you think she’s wrong then to make the statement she did?

EMILY THORNBERRY: There are people waking up now who will realise that they haven’t heard from their sons and daughters who were in central London who will be really worried as to where they are, were they involved in this, weren’t they involved in this, people worried about their friends. I think today we give ourselves time to pause, to breathe, to assimilate what has happened and we get on with the election tonight and party politics tonight and into the election. Some people have said to me should we pause the election, I think we absolutely must not pause the election because I think this is an attack on our absolute core values. We are a democratic country, we are a tolerant country, we work together and we must make sure that the best defiant way of fighting and winning against these murderous people is for life to go on and for us to have an election and for people to come out and vote.

SR: Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, said that he believes that London is one of the safest cities in the world, if not the safest city. Of course to many people waking up in London this morning it might not necessarily feel like that. Do you think that London is one of the safest cities in the world?

EMILY THORNBERRY: I do, I do and I think one of the purposes of terrorism is to strike terror, is to frighten people and we mustn’t be afraid, we mustn’t be afraid. London is open to the world and is a brilliant city and I am so proud to be one of the elected representatives of London.

SR: Emily Thornberry, thank you very much for your time, that’s all we’ve got time for, we do appreciate you coming down to London Bridge as well.