The Gov­ern­ment would not have left the pub­lic in the dark if there were a se­ri­ous se­cu­ri­ty threat to the coun­try and will not do so in fu­ture.

Amid a rush to su­per­mar­kets by cit­i­zens to stock up on vi­tal food sup­plies, work­place clo­sures and re­ports that sol­diers had been sum­moned to mil­i­tary in­stal­la­tions, Prime Min­is­ter ...