"We're still trying to presently construct what has happened. It's reasonably clear that there've been a series of terrorist attacks in London, obviously casualties - both people who have died and who are seriously injured, and our thoughts and prayers are with them. It's my intention to leave the G8 within the next couple of hours and go to London, get reports from the emergency services, the police and and the ministers, and then return later this evening. It is the will of all the leaders of the G8 however that the meeting should continue in my absence, to discuss the issues, and reach the conclusions we were going to reach. Each of the countries round the table has some experience of terrorism and its effects, and all share our complete resolution to defeat this terrorrism. It's particularly barbaric that this has happened, on a day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa, the problems of climate change worldwide... Just as it's reasonably clear that this is a terrorist attack or a series of terrorist attacks, designed and aimed to coincide with the G8 opening. There'll be time to talk later about this, it's important however that those engaged in terrorrism realise that our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this civilised nation, and throughout the world."