Following the guilty plea of Axel Rudakubana for the murders of three young girls in Southport, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has demanded a 'fundamental change' in Britain's child protection strategies. The government has pledged a comprehensive inquiry into the 'barbaric' killings, stating that 'nothing will be off the table'. Starmer highlighted the state's failure to protect its children and acknowledged the evolving nature of terrorism, which he characterized as increasingly perpetrated by 'loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms'.
Keir Starmer has stated that the Southport killings perpetrated by teenager Axel Rudakubana 'must be a line in the sand for Britain' and there must be “fundamental change” in how the country safeguards its children. This comes as the government announced they will conduct an inquiry into the 'barbaric' murders of three young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class last year.
During a Downing Street press conference this morning, the Prime Minister asserted 'nothing will be off the table' in the investigation, promising 'it will lead to change'. Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder as well as the attempted murder of eight other children and two adults on the first day of his trial on Monday (January 20). Starmer expressed that the conviction brought 'some measure of justice,' but emphasized the state's failure to protect its children 'leaps off the page'. The Prime Minister declared that the Southport murders revealed “terrorism has changed” with “acts of extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms”, and he pledged to amend the law if necessary to address the “new and dangerous” threat. The statement follows the disclosure that Rudakubana was referred to the anti-terrorism programme Prevent three times between December 2019 and April 2021, due to his general preoccupation with violence, and had been visited by police on several occasions in the months preceding the murders. 'We must ensure the names of those three young girls are not linked with the vile perpetrator but instead with a fundamental shift in how Britain protects its citizens and its children,' the Prime Minister stated this morning. 'In pursuit of that, we must, of course, pose and answer difficult questions, questions that should be comprehensive, unconstrained by cultural or institutional sensitivities, and driven solely by the pursuit of justice. That is what we owe the families.' He further added 'there must also be inquiries into the accountability of the Whitehall and Westminster system,' asserting he 'won't allow any institution of the state to evade responsibility for their failure'. 'This inquiry will leave no stone unturned,' he concluded
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