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When Prime Minister Theresa May called a general election seven weeks ago, she said she wanted a stronger mandate to secure a better deal for the United Kingdom as it left the European Union.
But after three major terrorist atrocities in three months, all claimed by Islamist militants, the political debates about Brexit, as well as education and the public health system, gave way to intense discussion about Islam and security ahead of Thursday's (June 8) election.
After the latest attack, in which eight people were killed and dozens injured — some stabbed and others rammed by a van driven at high speed into pedestrians — in the London Bridge neighborhood on June 3, May said, "Enough is enough."