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Why we’ll probably learn nothing from the Southport murders

21 January 2025

11:49 PM

21 January 2025

11:49 PM

The PM’s warm words will count for little. Starmer’s pledge is reminiscent of the one made by Theresa May in June 2017

Keir Starmer has pledged to act in light of the revelations about Southport killer Axel Rudakubana. The 17-year-old murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last year, and it has since emerged that Rudakubana – who also pleaded guilty to owning an online version of an al-Qaeda training manual – had been flagged for his radicalism on three occasions between 2019 and 2021.

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