Southport attack: public inquiry findings to be published – live updates

Inquiry heard evidence about state involvement with Axel Rudakubana, who killed three young girls at a dance workshop in summer 2024

Ministers are “failing to learn the lessons” from the Southport attack and allowing violence-obsessed teenagers to remain a “catastrophic” threat to society, lawyers for victims of the atrocity have said ahead of the findings of an official inquiry.

A report on the July 2024 attack by the judge Sir Adrian Fulford, to be released on Monday, is expected to strongly criticise failings by a series of agencies, including the counter-terrorism programme Prevent.

We will act on the recommendations, it’s really important that we do so.

So obviously there will be the full report, there will be the recommendations, we can go through them in detail – but this, for me, is a matter of principle.

It’s absolutely right that we act on the findings of this, and we will act on those findings.

There does have to be accountability, there should always be accountability.

The first most important thing is to look at what those recommendations are, what needs to change, and to be a government that says ‘we’re going to carry this, we’re going to do what we said’ – we gave our word on this and when we give our word, we’ll follow through on that.