After counter-terror police confirmed that two people who had collapsed in Amesbury, Wiltshire over the weekend had been poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that he will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency committee, Cobr.
In a statement released a few minutes ago, Javid said:
‘The Amesbury investigation is ongoing and the police must be given the space they need to continue establishing the full facts.
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