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.

The Prime Minister spoke live to the nation from Number 10 Downing Street on Tuesday in response to the Southport attack

Britain’s prime minister tries to get ahead of criticism of handling of the shocking case that sparked the UK’s summer riots

Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven

Watch again as Sir Keir Starmer held aDowning Street press conference on Tuesday (20 January) as a public inquiry was announced into the Southport killings. The prime minister announced a public inquiry will be held into the murders of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport by 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana “that can get to the truth about what happened and what needs to change”.

Britain faces a new threat of terrorism from “extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms” following the Southport murders, the Prime Minister has said