STARMER SAYS UK FACES NEW TERRORISM THREAT- UK laws will be changed quickly to recognize the ‘new and dangerous’ threat.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the Southport killings in July 2024 is a sign that the UK faces a new terrorism threat of individualized extreme violence, obsessive, often following online viewing of materials from all sorts of different sources.
Starmer said the tragedy of the Southport killings must give rise to a fundamental change in how Britain protects its citizens and children, further adding that difficult questions unfettered by cultural or institutional sensitivities must be posed in the pursuit of justice
Starmer says he will rise to the challenge to ensure that UK law response is capable and appropriate to deal with new terrorism threats, adding that the UK’s terrorism laws may be changed if needed, to recognize a “new and dangerous” type of threat driven by extreme violence online.
The government has announced a public inquiry into the murders, promising to examine the failures of state institutions to prevent the Southport attack.
Starmer who reiterated that the new threat was not one-off, emphasized the need to have a shared undertaking to deal with the threat by reviewing both the laws on terrorism and the laws concerning what can be accessible online