Blair urges Londoners to carry on as normal
British Prime Minister Tony Blair today urged the public to carry on with “business as normal” following the latest London terror attacks.
The UK Prime Minister said it would play into the terrorists’ hands if people allowed themselves to be deterred from going about their day-to-day lives.
“I think that everyone is canny enough to know what these people are trying to do – whoever is responsible for this latest incident – and that is to intimidate people and to scare them and to frighten them to stop them going about their normal business,” he told reporters in Downing Street.
“It is important we respond by keeping to our normal lives and doing what we want to do because to do otherwise is, in a sense, to give them the very thing they are looking for.
"To react in any other way is to engage in the game they want us to engage in.”
Mr Blair had been in talks with Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Downing Street when the reports of the incident started coming through at around 1.15pm.
The two men continued with their discussions over lunch before Mr Blair broke off at 2.30pm to chair a Cobra meeting, the British government’s emergency response committee.
At a joint news conference, Mr Howard condemned terrorism as “the enemy of all free people”.
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