40 years for Taliban bomb maker

A Taliban bomb maker who planned to murder MPs and police officers during a knife rampage in Westminster has been jailed for a minimum of 40 years. Khalid Ali, 28, was ready to launch ‘a deadly terror attack to strike at the very heart of this country’s democracy’ when he was caught with three knives yards from the gates of Downing Street. Ali set out on his mission ‘armed to the teeth’ on 27 April last year, just a month…