BREAKING: Keir Starmer to hold Downing Street press conference and give urgent statement

PM Keir Starmer volition present remarks successful Downing Street connected the Southport stabbings aft informing determination are questions to reply connected however young victims were 'failed' by the state

Keir Starmer is acceptable to clasp a No10 property league aft informing determination are questions to reply connected however the young victims of the Southport stabbings were "failed" by the state.

The PM volition code the federation astatine 8.30am connected Tuesday aft helium welcomed the condemnation of the "vile and sick Southport killer" 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana.

Rudakubana pleaded blameworthy connected Monday 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. He besides admitted the attempted murders of 8 different children, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, people teacher Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes.

Mr Starmer said his thoughts were with the families of everyone affected, "who volition beryllium saved from the ordeal of a protracted trial". But helium promised to "leave nary chromatic unturned" arsenic helium announced a nationalist enquiry into the killings.

The PM said successful an archetypal statement connected Monday: "It is besides a infinitesimal of trauma for the nation, and determination are sedate questions to reply arsenic to however the authorities failed successful its eventual work to support these young girls. Britain volition rightly request answers, and we volition permission nary chromatic unturned successful that pursuit.

"At the centre of this horrific event, determination is inactive a household and assemblage grief that is raw, a symptom that not adjacent justness tin ever genuinely heal. Although nary words contiguous tin ever genuinely convey the depths of that pain, I privation the families to cognize that our thoughts are with them and everyone successful Southport affected by this barbaric crime. The full federation grieves with them."

Home Secretary Yvettee Cooper said the nationalist enquiry into the Southport stabbings volition "get to the information astir what happened and what needs to change".

Ms Cooper said Rudakubana had "contact with a scope of antithetic authorities agencies passim his teenage years" earlier carrying retired his "meticulously planned rampage". And she said helium had been referred to the government's anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent, connected 3 occasions betwixt December 2019 and April 2021 aged 13 and 14.

In a statement, she said: "The families and the radical of Southport besides request answers astir what happened starring up to this attack. The perpetrator was successful interaction with a scope of antithetic authorities agencies passim his teenage years. He was referred 3 times to the Prevent programme betwixt December 2019 and April 2021 aged 13 and 14.

"He besides had interaction with the police, the courts, the Youth Justice system, societal services and intelligence wellness services. Yet betwixt them, those agencies failed to place the unspeakable hazard and information to others that helium posed."

She added: "The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been wide that important accusation astir the perpetrator's past could not beryllium made nationalist earlier contiguous to debar jeopardising the ineligible proceedings oregon prejudicing the imaginable assemblage trial, successful enactment with the mean rules of the British justness systems. Nothing has been much important than securing justness for the families.

"But present that determination has been a blameworthy plea, it is indispensable that the families and the radical of Southport tin get answers astir however this unspeakable onslaught could instrumentality spot and astir wherefore this happened to their children."