Starmer warns of online radicalization in wake of Southport murders – POLITICO

Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a fresh warning about the dangers of online radicalization, as he pointed out that the teenager who carried out July’s deadly Southport attack, Axel Rudakubana, watched violent online content before killing three young girls in a knife attack last summer.

“The responsibility for this barbaric act lies, as it always does, with the vile individual who carried it out,” Starmer said on Tuesday, one day after the 18-year-old pleaded guilty to his crimes.

An inquiry launched by the home secretary will examine the state failings that precipitated the horrific attack, including why the Prevent program, to which Rudakubana was referred three times and which is aimed at stopping radicalization, didn’t fully appreciate the risks he posed.