Labour's focus on 'Far-Right' doesn't 'sit well with Britons', Armstrong says

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GB News host Bev Turner hit out at Home Secretary Yvette Cooper this morning after claiming that "extreme far-right terrorism" remains one of Britain's biggest threats.Reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, Cooper penned a piece in a Sunday newspaper on how the nation is tackling terrorism today.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00I'm going to show you the footage from this 7-7 memorial service, of course, which is going on this morning.

00:06The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are attending St Paul's Cathedral.

00:09They have just arrived on behalf of the royal family.

00:12There is Sophie.

00:14Now, the Duchess of Edinburgh, people have still called them the Wessexers, of course.

00:18Yeah, but of course, she's Sophie Edinburgh now because he got his title from his father when his father died, Prince Philip.

00:24So they are the senior royals.

00:26They're representing the country at this memorial service.

00:28And I think the king should be there.

00:30He is head of state.

00:32And I know there is a convention that monarchs only attend the 25th anniversary service.

00:37Conventions are for changing and for breaking.

00:39And this was the most serious terrorist massacre on our soil could ever.

00:42He should be there, Alex.

00:43I absolutely think he should be there.

00:45I mean, he's breaking conventions on lots of things.

00:47He's trying to modernise the royal family.

00:49Why not do it on days like this?

00:51This is such a sore moment for every Londoner.

00:54In fact, the whole country, this was an egregious attack on our country and the king should be there.

01:01Yeah, and he's put a statement out, a very moving statement.

01:04And Prince William is at a private memorial service in Hyde Park, the second most senior year old.

01:08He's misstepped, hasn't he, the king?

01:10I think it would be a very good PR story for the king if he just turned up and he's broke convention.

01:18And what a great tribute that is to those that lost their lives.

01:21This was an attack on his soil, his home, all of our homes.

01:24And he's done the right thing by paying tribute to these people in person.

01:28What did you also make of Yvette Cooper's statement saying that we are still under threat from Islamic terrorists and also the far right?

01:35That's not the day to combine those two in that statement, is it?

01:40I think it may have been better worded if she'd have said we need to be wary of all terrorism on our shores.

01:46I think, I appreciate that, is it a third of terrorist cases?

01:5075%?

01:50No, no, I mean the far right stuff.

01:5275% is definitely the case workload of the Islamic fundamentalism.

01:56I think it's around 30% that they get from the so-called far right as a broad base.

02:02I think, you know, we need to be wary of all terrorism on our shores.

02:06Yeah, yeah, I do tend to agree with you there.

02:09But at the same time, particularly when it comes to this event, and we've talked, the comments are off the back of that, really.

02:14We know it wasn't far right people who committed the atrocity.

02:18And it's really this focus on the far right, this thing that doesn't really have a single ideology or a single group to look into.

02:27It doesn't sit well with Brits.

02:28We need to focus on, really, this big, overwhelming problem of radical Islamism in the country.

02:35And I think British people want to talk more openly about that.

02:36I mean, think of the other terrible terror attack was the Ariana Grande.

02:41Exactly.

02:41Imagine, 23 people died, many of them.

02:43Kids.

02:44Young kids.

02:45Islamist terror.

02:46Of course it was.

02:46And we know it was far right killed Joe Cox, the Labour MP, shocking and appalling.

02:50But the other MP who was killed, David Amos, again, an Islamist terrorist.

02:54Exactly.

02:54And I think Jeremy Corbyn raised it the week after the terror attack during the general election campaign or not long before.

03:02And actually the survivor that was on with Eamon Nellie this morning said the same thing about Tony Blair.

03:08It also shows what can happen with foreign wars, thinking that it isn't going to at some point come back to your shores.

03:13Both of these people, the 7-7 were brought up here.

03:16The Manchester attack obviously came here as refugees or whatever else.

03:20But there's obviously an element of these types of people that go, you've done this to where I'm really from, so I'm going to take action.

03:26That's the sort of stuff we've got to be wary of.

03:27Absolutely.

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