Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged 'fundamental change' in how the British state protects citizens following the deadly attack on a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, where an 18-year-old stabbed three young girls to death. Starmer announced a public inquiry to examine failings in the case of Axel Rudakubana, who was referred to the government's anti-extremism program, Prevent, multiple times but remained undetected by authorities.
LONDON — Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday that the killing of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class must lead to “fundamental change” in how the British state protects citizens and a reckoning with new threats from violent individuals that test the traditional definition of terrorism.
His guilty plea means that details that had been withheld from the public to try to ensure a fair trial can now be reported. They include the fact that Rudakubana was referred three times to the government’s anti-extremism program, Prevent, when he was 13 and 14, and was in contact with multiple state agencies — all of whom failed to spot the danger he posed.
The killings in the northwest England town triggered days of anti-immigrant violence across the country after far-right activists seized on incorrect reports that the attacker was an asylum-seeker who had recently arrived in the U.K.Critics have accused Starmer’s government of withholding information about the suspect in the aftermath of the attack. Starmer said there was no conspiracy of silence, just a desire to see justice done.
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