Nicholas Wallace
Euractiv, Jan. 28, 2025
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to respond to nightmarish crimes against children that horrified his country and exposed state failures.
On 29 July last year, Axel Rudakubana, then aged 17, stabbed to death three girls aged six, seven and nine, and attempted to murder eight other children and two adults, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the quiet seaside town of Southport on Merseyside, 20 miles north of Liverpool.
The riots that followed marked the early weeks of the country’s new centre-left Labour government, led by Starmer.
The killer is now behind bars, but evidence presented in court suggests authorities missed several opportunities to stop him. The government has promised an inquiry.
The atrocity, and the riots that followed it, have made the prime minister a target for Elon Musk, who frequently posts extreme and personal attacks on Starmer to his 215 million followers on X. ….SOURCE