HERO MINISTER:

FOREIGN OFFICE Minister Tobias Ellwood was pictured with a bloodied face after giving first aid to one of the casualties.

The former army officer gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a person injured within the carnage in New Palace Yard. Tory colleague Maria Miller said he “has given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to one victim”.

It is not the first time Mr Ellwood’s life has been touched by an atrocity, his brother Jonathan was killed in the 2002 Bali bombing.

Eyewitness Hugh Dickinson, a 21-year-old student from High Wycombe, posted a picture of the minister on Twitter, showing him apparently bleeding, but saying, “he looked to be fine”.

He said: “He had blood on his forehead as you can see but he wasn’t bleeding profusely. It looked like either a smear or graze and you can see some on his cuff too if you zoom in.

He added: “He looked to be fine – no obvious limp or anything.”

The Bournemouth East MP is Foreign Office Minister, with the Middle East, Africa and counter terrorism within his brief.