Southport stabbing: Starmer shakes hands of hero first responders who rushed to help children

Prime minister shakes hands with Southport stabbing emergency workersSource: PA Media

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00:00Thank you very much.

00:36I'm a father.

00:37I cannot imagine what they are going through.

00:38But I also wanted to come here as quickly as possible to say a personal thank you face

00:42to face to all of you, because you are totally professional.

00:47I know you would go and face any situation that was put in front of you.

00:52You do it every day, but there's no pretending that what you dealt with yesterday was ordinary

00:58or just the usual response.

00:59It was really, really difficult.

01:02And I just want to say a personal thank you to each of you.

01:05That's why I wanted to shake each of your hands for what you did yesterday.

01:09I'm incredibly proud of what you've done.

01:12I'm amazed but not surprised that you're in today carrying on with your duties.

01:18I really want you to focus on the fact that there are children today alive because of

01:25what you did yesterday.

01:27That is incredible.