Election campaign resumes:
Britain
Britain’s election campaign resumed Thursday after being brutally halted by the Manchester pop concert massacre -- and the issue of security is expected to be at the fore.
The governing Conservatives and the main opposition Labour Party said they would resume local campaigning ahead of the general election on June 8.
National campaigning involving Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would then resume on Friday, party officials said.
“Terror will not... derail our democratic process,” Corbyn said.
May and Corbyn had suspended campaigning -- along with the leaders of other parties -- after the suicide attack that struck a pop concert in Manchester, northwest England, which killed 22 people and injured dozens more.
The hiatus came at a time when May was on the back foot after being forced last week to amend a key part of her manifesto for funding elderly care. (AFP)