CAMERON PRAISES MAN FOR ‘YOU AINT NO MUSLIM, BRUV’ COMMENT

Prime Minister David Cameron has thanked the person who shouted “you ain’t no Muslim, bruv” in the aftermath of the Leytonstone knife attack.

The Conservative party leader, right, described the incident in which a 56-yearold man was injured as “hideous”.

Eyewitnesses said the attacker said “this is for Syria” during the incident on Saturday evening, with another man then heard to shout “you ain’t no Muslim, bruv”.

Mr Cameron said: “Some of us have dedicated speeches and media appearances and soundbites and everything to this subject, but ‘you ain’t no Muslim, bruv’ said it all much better than I could have done.

“Thank you, because that will be applauded around the country.”

Muhaydin Mire, of Sansom Road, Leytonstone, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with attempted murder and was remanded in custody until his next court appearance on Friday.

Mr Cameron was speaking at the De Ferrers Academy in Burton, Staffordshire, where he said his Government was “making progress” on delivering key manifesto pledges on the NHS, home ownership and apprentices.

He said: “A manifesto shouldn’t be a wish list, it should be a checklist.

“And that’s why, since the election, we haven’t been tacking off in a new direction, but marking off the commitments we made.”

Mr Cameron announced a number of initiatives, including expansion of the shared-ownership scheme – which allows people in England to part-buy, part-rent properties, increasing their share of the ownership over time.