The prime minister has addressed the nation after the government announced an inquiry into state failings to prevent the Southport attack.

Sir Keir Starmer appealed for sympathy in a Downing Street press conference about the Southport killings. Yes, the focus was on the murdered children. Six-year-old Bebe, seven-year-old Elsie and Alice, nine, who died following a mass stabbing in the Merseyside seaside town last July.

Last summer’s Southport killings will mark a “line in the sand” for Britain, Sir Keir Starmer has said, promising to introduce new terror laws if necessary.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday that the Southport knife attack last July was a sign that the country faces a new type of terrorism threat in the form of extreme violence perpetrated by loners.