The Henry Jackson Society has commented on the incident in Westminster this morning, after a man was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.
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Tom Wilson, Research Fellow in the Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism at the Henry Jackson Society, said:
“If this incident is indeed terrorism, then we are yet again seeing the use of a vehicle as part of a low-tech attack.
“This would also fit a pattern of terrorists increasingly targeting government and democratic institutions.
“This is a trend which has grown since the 2014 attack on the Canadian Parliament, and was particularly apparent in the 2017 attacks on Westminster and Whitehall.”