LONDON ¨C If Theresa May has gotten any sleep in the past 24 hours, her spokesman wouldn¡¯t know; he never asks.
The 60-year-old prime minister was kept informed of events in Manchester all through Monday night. At 4 a.m., she called Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to agree to suspend their campaign for the June 8 general election following the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil since 2005.
Through the next day, May twice chaired the government¡¯s COBRA emergency committee, visited the Manchester police¡¯s situation room and stopped by the city¡¯s children¡¯s hospital. On Tuesday night, she announced a plan to deploy the military to guard concerts and sporting events against another attack that she warned could be imminent.
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