Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has said that a public inquiry is the correct route to "get to the truth" and see if there were "missed opportunities" to prevent the Southport attacks which left three young girls dead last summer. Philp's comments come after Prime Minister Keir Starmer defended the government's response to the attack after being accused of "withholding information about the perpetrator". The government announced a public inquiry into the Southport attack carried out by Axel Rudakubana, 18, who had previously been referred three times to the government's anti-terror programme, Prevent. 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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00:00Well, I think it is right to have a public inquiry to make sure that we get to the truth,
00:04to see if there were missed opportunities to prevent this evil young man from murdering
00:09those poor innocent young girls. We do need to find that out and to learn the lessons
00:13and a public inquiry is the right way to do that, just like it's the right way to get
00:17to the bottom of the rape gangs we've been talking about in recent weeks. But this public
00:22inquiry should also cover the government's response after these terrible murders. Were
00:27they as open and transparent as they could have been? Jonathan Hall, the independent
00:31reviewer of terrorism legislation says there is a lot you can say without prejudicing subsequent
00:36trials, and we need to understand if the government's potential failure to be completely open and
00:42transparent contributed in any way to those appalling and unacceptable riots that followed.