HANGING should be brought back for monsters like Axel Rudakubana, MPs demanded tonight. Reform Party politicians said the horrifying nature of the Southport attack warranted the death penalty.

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

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Southport’s Labour MP Patrick Hurley said the sentence was “not severe enough” and he had asked the Attorney General to review the sentence as “unduly lenient”, adding: “We need a sentence that represents the severity of this crime that has terrorised the victims and their families.”

A number of the papers lead with the guilty plea entered by Axel Rudakubana on the first day of his trial for the Southport attacks. The 18-year-old admitted killing three girls - aged six, seven, and nine - at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July.

Sky News presenter Kay Burley skewered Labour minister Alison McGovern with a barrage of questions over the Southport murders. The Government has come under fire for withholding information from the public about the incident being treated as terrorism.

Question Time viewers have voiced their outrage after Ecotricity founder and Labour donor Dale Vince shared his thoughts on the actions of Axel Rudakubana following his murder of three young girls at a dance party in Southport last year.

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

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.”

There are “grave questions” to answer about how the state failed the Southport murder victims, Sir Keir Starmer has said.