Badenoch has pointed to social integration as a factor in Axel Rudakubana’s stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift dance class. But the topic of integration was absent from Mr Justice Goose’s decision to hand Rudakubana a 52-year prison sentence.

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.

Claims have been made online about the timing of the trial of the Southport attacker. Court artist sketch of Southport stabbings suspect Axel Rudakubana on the first day of his trial at Liverpool ...

Conservative and Labour MPs have hit back at Nigel Farage after he told LBC he has no confidence in the Government’s inquiry into the Southport attack.

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.

Keir Starmer rules out whole life sentence for Southport killer Axel Rudakubana - Though the Southport killer will likely die behind bars, critics have claimed the punishment is not severe enough

She also says that more needs to be done on integration after the Southport killings. She is pressed on what evidence exists showing the crimes were linked to integration, and cites her own personal experience

Labour continues to struggle in the polls as the Southport killings and October's divisive Budget pile more pressure on Keir Starmer.

Nigel Farage says party has ‘all the momentum in British politics’ with chairman claiming it is ‘headed for government’

The Reform UK leader was among the politicians critical of how the Government responded to the attack, as Patrick Hurley, the Labour MP for Southport, said Rudakubana’s guilty plea would spare the families of the three murder victims a lengthy trial.

The chief of the Metropolitan Police has said that the Southport attack, which left three little girls dead, was not an act of terrorism.

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