POLITICANS have united in their praise for emergency services in the wake of the London attack last night.

It comes as six people were killed, and a further 48 taken to hospitals across the capital.

Rebecca Harris, Tory candidate for Castle Point condemned the attacks and paid tribute to the "amazing police response."

Mrs Harris believes fighting the "warped ideology of attackers" should be the priority.

She said: "For so long we have managed to keep this violence off our streets, and then to have three attacks in a row is hard to comprehend.

"It's just very hard to comprehend. The police response was absolutely astonishing, God Bless them they are amazing.

"Officers here the best trained armed response force in the world.

"What we have now is a long term battle fighting against the warped ideology that is leading people to carrying out these twisted attacks.

"The Government has put a huge amount of extra resources int oour security services, and will continue to do so."

James Duddridge‏, Tory candidate for Rochford and Southend East tweeted: "Thoughts with all those affected by last night's events in #LondonBridge and #boroughmarketattack and thank you to all emergency services."

Kevin McNamara, Liberal Democrat candidate for Thurrock, said: "We owe a huge debt to our emergency services and how they responded to these terrible events."

Leader of the Basildon Labour Group Gavin Callaghan‏ tweeted: "We cannot allow terrorism to halt our democratic process. People will be looking to political leaders for guidance and answers today."

The party confirmed it will be pausing its general election campaigning in Basildon today.