TORIES PROMISE HOMELAND MILITARY COMMAND TO COMBAT TERROR THREAT

A new Homeland Military Command would be created by a Tory government to fight the serious threat that a British city will be the target of an atrocity such as the Mumbai massacre.

Baroness Neville-Jones pledged a permanent armed group on standby to fight attacks more severe than the London bombings of July 7, 2005.

You can read the story from The Times here and her full speech made at the Conservative Party conference here.

Meanwhile, the London Evening Standard has reported she has also been asked by Tory leader David Cameron to review security measures for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Baroness Neville-Jones, a former chairman of the Joint-Intelligence Committee, which oversees the work of MI5 and MI6, was appointed shadow security minister by Mr Cameron in 2007 with a brief to overhaul counter-terrorism policy.