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.

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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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One MP for Nigel Farage’s party, Lee Anderson, posted a picture of a noose on his X account, adding: ‘No apologies here. This is what is required!’, while prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said Rudakuba

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.

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 ...

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

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.”

The creator has superimposed Rudakubana’s mugshot onto the body of Labour MP Keir Mather in an image showing the MP shaking hands with his party leader. The original photograph is from July 2023.

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