Keir Starmer’s Southport speech in full – as PM warns ‘face of terrorism has changed’ & Britain faces ‘new threat’
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SIR KEIR Starmer today addressed the nation following the guilty plea of Southport monster Axel Rudakubana. The PM expressed his horror at the state failings that allowed the killer to strike despite being known to the authorities. And he warned that the nature of terrorism is changing and that Britain faces "a new threat".
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Below is his speech from No9 Downing Street in full. THE senseless, barbaric murder of three young girls in Southport is a devastating moment in our history. No words come anywhere close to expressing the brutality and horror in this case. Every parent in Britain will have had the same thought.
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It could have been anywhere. It could have been our children. But it was Southport. It was Bebe. Six years old. Elsie. Seven. Alice. Nine. Back in August I said there would be a time for questions, but that first, justice had to be done. And that above all, we must not interfere with the work of the police, the prosecutors, and the delivery of that justice.
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Well yesterday, thankfully, a measure of justice was done. But it won’t bring those girls back to their families. It won’t remove the trauma from the lives of those who were injured. Their lives will never be the same. So, before I turn to the questions that must now be answered for the families and the nation, I first want to recognise their unimaginable grief. Because I know the whole country grieves for them.
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The tragedy of the Southport killings must be a line in the sand for Britain. We must make sure the names of those three young girls are not associated with the vile perpetrator, but instead with a fundamental change in how Britain protects its citizens and its children.
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