BANNING vehicles from Parliament Square is just one idea put forward by an Oxfordshire MP following the Westminster terror attack.

Wantage MP Ed Vaizey has spoken out about the security review that is under way after five people, including a police officer, were killed on Wednesday as attacker Khalid Masood, 52, mowed down people on Westminster bridge before crashing a car into the gates outside Parliament.

Security at the palace is now being review after the horrific attack and forces across the UK are reviewing their own security arrangements.

MP Ed Vaizey, who was walking between Portcullis Building and the House of Commons chamber in Westminster at the time of the attack, said: “I think we have always known the carriage gates were particularly vulnerable and I think government should consider pedestrianising Parliament Square in order to keep traffic away.

For example this could then create the space to build a proper entrance for people visiting as at the moment people can be queuing there for an hour.”

The square is at the northwest end of the Palace of Westminster and has a large open green area and eleven statues or statesmen.

Mr Vaizey added: “I think the facilities could be improved in this way using part of Parliament Square, and then this also allows for people to be screened away from the main palace too. I also think they should only let certain cars into the palace.

“I certainly think there needs to be a thoughtful and imaginative approach which could be worked in with the refurbishment of the palace itself.”

In wake of the terror attack Thames Valley Police chief constable Francis Habgood pledged to review its local policing and the force has since looked at security for upcoming community events and ‘crowded places’.”