Well, the police have an important investigation underway,
and they need to make the operational decisions, but
we saw yesterday this real celebration of joy in the
city turn into the most horrific incident. And so
as well as we're all thinking of those who were
injured and. The the very best recovery. We
also need to thank, say huge thanks to all
those who responded, the police, the ambulance service
, the fire service, and all those who were
involved yesterday, many of whom I've met today,
who did the most professional job to make sure that
lives were saved. And like you said, it
was a big day. Hundreds of thousands of people
were out celebrating here. Merseyside Police confirmed earlier that
the car was able to get through a roadblock because
it was following an ambulance. Is this a policing
and local authorities' failure, do you think? How
was a car able to enter what was meant to
be a pedestrianized safe zone? I've spoken to many
of the police, the ambulance service, the fire
service, and local authorities who were involved in responding
yesterday to the most horrific incident that came after this
day of celebration and joy in the city and the
professionalism of their response, the way in which they
work. Together to make sure that lives were saved
and to be able to keep people safe, I
think it's hugely important and we really thank them for
that. The investigation of course is ongoing into what
happened and we need to let that police investigation take
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