Claims have been made online about the timing of the trial of the Southport attacker. Court artist sketch of Southport stabbings suspect Axel Rudakubana on the first day of his trial at Liverpool ...

The false claim that Southport trial was deliberately timed for Trump inauguration - The claim echoes other posts over recent months which make various claims about the timing of both events

The main portion of the photograph shows Sir Keir Starmer at an event in Selby, North Yorkshire, on July 21 2023. It was taken after Keir Mather won the by-election for the parliamentary constituency of Selby and Ainsty for Labour the previous day. In the original image, Sir Keir can be seen shaking Mr Mather’s hand.

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Keir Starmer said ‘Britain will rightly demand answers’ after it was revealed Axel Rudakubana had terror links

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who was backed by shadow home secretary Chris Philp in her calls, said there was a “strong case” for amending the law to allow for whole life orders to be imposed on people aged under 18 in some cases, which the Conservatives “will start to explore”.

The chief of the Metropolitan Police has said that the Southport attack, which left three little girls dead, was not an act of terrorism.

Labour must not “hide” behind the public inquiry into the Southport attack, Kemi Badenoch said this morning. The leader of the Conservative Party said “there were clearly multiple state ...

No love lost: Starmer seeemed particularly angered by the Tory leader’s blast at his plan to slap VAT on private schools, a move Badenoch warned would hit people with special needs. “She’s got a nerve,” the PM shot back. “We are going to fix that mess like we are fixing every other mess.”

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A former chairman of the Conservative Party has claimed that the beginning of Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana’s trial was scheduled on the same day as Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration as “a calculated and cynical move by the Labour Government to ‘bury bad news’ behind international headlines”.

The road to the Southport atrocity was paved by the system, from schools to mental health services, failing the family of Axel Rudakubana