The election campaign resumes on Friday – in defiance of those who seek to destroy democracy

The election campaign will resume on Friday, with both Labour and the Tory national campaigns re-staring. This is welcome news. The decision to pause the campaign in the light of this horrific terrorist attack was understandable. But the danger, with only 15 days to go until polling day, was that a prolonged pause would have had a profound effect on the election—allowing the terrorists to boast that they had forced us to change our way of life.

When campaigning does resume, we should all remember something: that one of our great civilisational achievements is that we argue about our differences in public and then casts our ballots in private to resolve these differences. That we do this is one of the great strengths of our society and even if the process sometimes isn’t pretty, it is something that we should cherish and protect.