Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed that the Finsbury Park incident is being treated as a terrorist attack, and has said that security around mosques will be reviewed.

“Extra police resources have already been deployed to reassure communities, and the police will continue to assess the security needs of mosques, and provide any additional resources needed, especially during this final week before Eid al-Fitr, a particularly important time for the whole Muslim community,” said May, speaking from Downing Street on Monday (19 June).

She added that the attack had targeted the “ordinary and innocent”, and finished by saying: “Hatred and evil of this kind will never succeed.”

Elsewhere, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was “totally shocked” by the incident and added that “an attack on a mosque, an attack on a synagogue, an attack on a church is actually an attack on all of us”.

Police have asked anyone with information regarding the Finsbury Park attack to call the counter-terrorism hotline on 0800 789 321

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