Boris Johnson says Winston Churchill’s message to the people of Britain following the Westminster terror attack would be ‘never surrender, never give in’

WINSTON Churchill's message to the people of Britain following the Westminster terror attack would be “never surrender, never give in”, according to Boris Johnson.

The former London mayor and Churchill biographer said it was vital for life in the city to continue as normal in the wake of the incident.

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Mr Johnson declared: "The way to lose the war on terror is to be terrified, even for a second. We are not terrified and we will go on."

The Foreign Secretary said "a huge amount of surveillance and monitoring" was required to tackle the small number of extremists intent on violence in a major city like London.

And he issued a demand to internet companies to crack down on extremist content carried on their networks, which he said was "corrupting and polluting" its viewers.

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Mr Johnson was speaking during a visit to the US to attend a conference of nations fighting the Islamic State terror group.

Asked what Churchill's message to modern-day Britons would be, Mr Johnson told MSNBC's Morning Joe programme: "The lesson that Winston Churchill would want the British people to take from his life and what he stood for would be 'Never, never, never, never surrender. Never give in'.

“And we won't."

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He said the values of democracy represented by the Palace of Westminster will "triumph" over those of the terrorist who launched an attack on it.

Mr Johnson paid tribute to the "absolute heroism" of PC Keith Palmer, who died after being stabbed by the attacker.

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On ISIS he said: "We are going to have to engage not just militarily in Syria and Iraq, as we are doing, to crush the dark star that they have created, that absurd, pompous statelet that they have created, but also to win in their hearts and minds and to stop the stuff on the internet that is corrupting and polluting so many people.

"This is something that the internet companies and social media companies need to think about.

"They need to do more to take that stuff off their media, the incitements, the information about how to become a terrorist, the radicalising sermons and messages. That needs to come down."