YP Comment: UK and Tunisia's terror victims

The HEARTBREAK and heartache was clearly audible in the voices of the families of the 30 British tourists unlawfully killed by Islamist jihadist Seifeddine Rezgui while holidaying at the previously idyllic Tunisian beach resort.

It’s also understandable that some believe travel firm TUI should have done more before the fateful trip to assess the security situation, though the coroner, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith, rejected claims that this amounted to neglect.

Though the Foreign Office is, rightly, reluctant to relax the travel restrictions that were hastily put in place after the gunman overpowered dozens of holiday-makers, Tunisia remains an important ally and this Government should be working with its counterparts there to neutralise the threat posed by jihadists.

Echoing the bi-partisanship that was the creed of murdered MP Jo Cox, more unites Britain and Tunisia than divides the two nations, even though this was the worst terrorist attack against Britons, in terms of loss of life, since the 7/7 suicide bombings in London. The first against 21st century terrorism is a global struggle which demands the closest of co-operation between those intelligence agencies that have the invidious task of identifying perpetrators of mass murder before they strike. After all, this attack should not just be measured by the grim death toll, but the many Muslims left out of work because their country’s tourism industry is in financial ruin.