There is a Pakistan connection. But what we expect to find at some stage is that there is a clear al Qaeda link because the four men who are dead are in the category of foot soldiers.

This is not the B-team. These weren't the amateurs. They made a mistake, they made one mistake. We are very, very lucky.

The threat remains as clear and manifest as it has ever since last July.

The second attacks on the 21st of July should not be taken as some indication that the weakening of the capability or resolve of those responsible,

It is a package that delivers safer neighbourhoods to everyone in London, that takes people out of their offices and puts them on the streets, that asks officers to walk as much as possible by themselves so they are accessible to the public, and it is part of the overall modernisation of the Metropolitan Police.

Clearly the intention must have been to kill.