Still frighteningly easy to find their vile teachings

IN three months, there have been three vile terror attacks in Britain.

No one should now be in any doubt that more action is needed against extremist threats. All our thoughts will be with those who have been hurt or lost loved ones. And with the brave emergency services who saved lives.

But we also need everyone to do more to tackle terrorism. That means Government funding more police, more work to prevent radicalisation and more action against extremist recruitment online.

For months, the Home Affairs Select Committee has been calling for social media giants to remove illegal propaganda and for the Government to bring in penalties to force them into action. It is appalling that still I can easily find on YouTube propaganda and training videos from banned terror organisations including ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and National Action.

Google, which owns YouTube, has been warned many times. Yet it still refuses to take the basic step of using its own search engines to find this material and take it down. What will it take to make Google act? But the Government has a responsibility too. The time for talking has past. If social media firms won’t change their ways, the Government should bring in fines and penalties to force them to do so.

Across the country, people are coming together to make sure extremists cannot divide us. Now we need that same sense of solidarity from social networking sites too.