Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said Britain faces a "new and dangerous threat" in light of the Southport attack in July 2024. Speaking a day after Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, Starmer warned of the rising threat of 'extreme violence perpetrated by loners, misfits, young men accessing all manner of material'. The Prime Minister added that he would change the law if needed to tackle this new threat. Report by Faragt. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The blunt truth here is that this case is a sign Britain now faces a new threat.
00:09Terrorism has changed. In the past the predominant threat was highly organised groups
00:16with clear political intent, groups like Al-Qaeda. That threat of course remains.
00:25But now alongside that we also see acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners,
00:33misfits, young men in their bedroom accessing all manner of material online, desperate for notoriety,
00:42sometimes inspired by traditional terrorist groups, but fixated on that extreme violence,
00:50seemingly for its own sake.
00:55Now it may well be that people like this are harder to spot, but we can't shrug our shoulders
01:03and accept that. We can't have a national security system that fails to tackle people
01:10who are a danger to our values, our security, our children. We have to be ready to face
01:18every threat. And so if the law needs to change to recognise this new and dangerous threat,
01:26then we will change it, and quickly. And we will also review our entire counter-extremist system
01:35to make sure we have what we need to defeat it.