BREAKING: Keir Starmer holds urgent No10 press conference on Southport stabbings - watch live

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is acceptable to code the federation astatine 08:30am this greeting to sermon 'grave questions' astir the execution of 3 girls successful Southport past summer

Keir Starmer is holding a property league successful Downing Street to marque an exigency connection astir the Southport stabbings.

The Prime Minister is acceptable to code the federation astatine 08:30am this greeting to sermon "grave questions" astir the execution of 3 girls past summer. Vile slayer Axel Rudakubana yesterday pleaded blameworthy to murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, Bebe King, 6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, successful a frenzied onslaught connected a Taylor Swift-themed people connected July 29.

Following his blameworthy plea, and the lifting of ineligible restrictions, it emerged Rudakubana had been referred to the government's anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent, connected 3 occasions betwixt December 2019 and April 2021 aged 13 and 14. He was archetypal referred to Prevent erstwhile helium was conscionable 13 years old, aft helium reportedly viewed worldly relating to US schoolhouse shootings.

He had besides been successful interaction with a fig of different agencies, including the police, the courts, the Youth Justice system, societal services and intelligence wellness services. Yet nary of the services progressive identified the unsafe hazard helium posed to others.

Mr Starmer admitted "there are sedate questions to reply arsenic to however the authorities failed successful its eventual work to support these young girls". And Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a nationalist enquiry into the Southport stabbings to analyse however authorities agencies "failed" the victims. She said the probe was to "get to the information astir what happened and what needs to change".

Jonathan Hall KC, the government's autarkic reviewer connected coercion laws, connected Tuesday greeting said determination were questions implicit which authorities should woody with radical obsessed with unit but not driven by ideology. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Prevent volition look astatine individuals who travel crossed their radar, and past counter-terrorism constabulary volition beryllium asking themselves, 'is this the benignant of idiosyncratic who we ought to help, fixed our coercion remit?'

"You'll sometimes get cases wherever counter-terrorism constabulary volition say, 'ultimately, we conscionable don't deliberation we tin accidental this guy's connected the trajectory to becoming a terrorist, and truthful he's not for us'. The question is, who bash they past manus the hazard implicit to? And it's not arsenic if you've got tons of different specializer constabulary forces who are determination to woody with ultra-violent obsessed people... it doesn't look to maine a occupation for neighbourhood policing, for example."

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