Shadow home secretary David Davis praised Ms Smith's "calmness" in dealing with the failed car bombattacksinLondon and at Glasgow Airport over the weekend.
The coordinated suicide bombattacksinLondonin 2005 that killed 56 people and injured more than 700 were a watershed for the U.K. in its experience of terrorist attacks.
The U.K. has been the scene of a number of terrorist attacks, ranging from the coordinated suicide bombattacksinLondonin 2005 that killed 56 people and injured more than 700 to so-called lone-wolf style attacks.