YP Comment: Spirit of Britain

Amid the harrowing reports of those caught up in the explosion there were individual stories of quiet heroism and compassion, stories of taxi drivers running people home for free, of people offering up their homes to stranded strangers without a second thought, and queues of people, numbering in their hundreds, lining up to donate blood.

On a day when General Election campaigning was suspended in the wake of the attacks this was the country at its very best. Theresa May spoke for us all when she praised the ‘spirit’ of Manchester and Britain, a spirit that ‘will never be broken’ by terrorism.

The Prime Minister said: “While we experienced the worst of humanity in Manchester, we also saw the best. The cowardice of the attacker met the bravery of the emergency services and the people of Manchester.

“The attempt to divide us met countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together and in the days ahead, those must be the things that we remember.”