Yahoo News The Snap: low-key election campaign restarts after Manchester attack
What’s happening?
After a pause in the wake of the terror attack in Manchester, some parties will restart campaigning today. The Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens have agreed that no national events will take place until Friday, but local campaigning – leafleting, and so on – will resume today after a UK-wide minute of silence for the Manchester victims at 11am.
The SNP confirmed that Nicola Sturgeon would not be campaigning before Friday; the party manifesto, which was due to have been launched on Tuesday, will now be published next week, as will those for the Scottish Green party, and the Scottish Lib Dems.
Yesterday, Ukip became the first party to announce it would be returning to the stump, with leader Paul Nuttall saying he would launch the postponed manifesto this morning:
For those who say that nothing must change, but then complain, it is by prolonging the disruption to normality that we allow the terrorists to win. Politics has never been more important. Politicians must deal with these issues.
The issues brought into sharp focus by the attack on Manchester Arena will dominate the prime minister’s agenda as she heads to Brussels for a Nato summit. Theresa May will press the coalition to do more to tackle the Isis threat, as investigations continue into Salman Abedi, the Manchester bomber, and his wider network.
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Diary
Theresa May will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency committee, Cobra, this morning.
Then she, along with Boris Johnson and Michael Fallon, will travel to Brussels for the Nato summit.
At 9.30, the latest immigration figures are published by the Office for National Statistics.
At 10.15 Paul Nuttall launches the Ukip manifesto in London.
At 11am, there will be a nationwide minute’s silence for the Manchester victims.
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