Four days after the Manchester bombing, the major political parties went back on to the election trail

Jeremy Corbyn strongly condemned the attack as a ‘brutal slaughter of innocents’.

But the Labour leader has been accused of using the atrocity to make a political point, after drawing links between Britain’s involvement in military interventions overseas and terrorism at home.

Although just earlier this year, on May 2nd, the Lords International Relations Committee had published a report, ‘The Middle East: Time for New Realism’, in which it called for a major re-shaping of UK policy in the Middle East and questioned some of the assumptions and attitudes which have underlined both UK and Western policies toward that region for more than a century.